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Today, PLF filed a lawsuit in federal district court in California on behalf of Duarte Nursery, Inc., against the United States Army Corps of Engineers and officials of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board.  The suit alleges that both of these agencies violated Duarte’s constitutional rights to due process of law, by issui ...

Next Monday morning I will be presenting oral argument in the federal District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento, in the case of Duarte v. Corps of Engineers.  PLF represents Duarte Nursery, Inc., and its president, John Duarte, in their suit against the Army Corps of Engineers, which violated their constitutional due  ...

Tomorrow evening I will be joining PLF client John Duarte in appearing on the Stossel Show with John Stossel on Fox Business Network, at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific.  We will be talking about Duarte Nursery v. Corps of Engineers, our case challenging the government’s order shutting down a family farm in violation of due process protections.  ...

Last night I appeared with client John Duarte on the Stossel Show with John Stossel, discussing our case against the Corps of Engineers for violating Duarte Nursery‘s due process rights.  The show will re-air tomorrow night, April 19, at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific, on the Fox News Channel. … ...

Today United States Senator Vitter (R-La), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, featured PLF’s case on behalf of John Duarte and Duarte Nursery against the Corps of Engineers on one of the Committee’s blogs.  Senator Vitter notes that this recent case in California paints a picture of what more Americans ...

Tomorrow several of us will be at Duarte Nursery‘s annual Friends Day on the nursery grounds in Hughson, California, at 1555 Baldwin Road, just outside Modesto.  The event runs from 9am to 2pm, with plenty of interesting things to see and learn about agriculture in California, good food, and even a brief update on Duarte … ...

As regular readers know, PLF argued a case in the Supreme Court of the United States last week, U.S. Army Corps v. Hawkes Co., concerning whether property owners can have their day in court when the federal government declares their land subject to federal control. During the oral argument, Justice Kennedy — long-considered the “swing ...

Late last Friday, PLF, on behalf of clients John Duarte and Duarte Nursery, filed a Petition in the Ninth Circuit requesting that it stay the upcoming trial in the Duarte Nursery case. As we have previously reported, Mr. Duarte and Duarte Nursery are facing millions of dollars in fines based on the government’s contention that … ...

Environmentalists warn of catastrophic sun-darkening on Monday! Support for the Supreme Court to toss Michigan’s theft by tax-forclosure scheme Widespread support for “absent frog” case in Supreme Court And widespread concern for unoccupied sage-grouse habitat rules John Duarte settles with the Corps over making mountains out of ...