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Author: Ralph W. Kasarda The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law by President Obama just over a year ago, on February 17, 2009.  The Recovery Act distributes $787 billion dollars through tax benefits, contracts, grants, loans and entitlements.  Soon after the Recovery Act became law, an argument emerged that the s ...

Author: Daniel Himebaugh PLF recently filed this amicus brief in a case called Laurel Park Community, LLC v. City of Tukwila.  In our brief, we support several mobile home park owners in their effort to overturn a city ordinance that essentially prohibits them from using their property for anything but mobile home parks.  The ordinance ...

Author: Anne Hayes Naturally, PLF is extremely pleased that the United States Supreme Court granted the petition for writ of certiorari in the Sacketts' case against the EPA.  However, we should point out that the Sacketts' situation, while a devastating development to them, is not new under the sun.  The EPA has been abusing la ...

The February issue of Cato Unbound focuses on substantive due process. The opening essay, by me, is adapted from my article, In Defense of Substantive Due Process. Responses will be coming soon from Professors Gary Lawson, Lawrence Rosenthal, and Ryan Williams. … ...

The conversation over my article, In Defense of Substantive Due Process is continuing over at Cato Unbound. Check out these posts by Lawrence Rosenthal, Ryan Williams, and two by myself. And feel free to join the conversation. … ...

At the American Legislator, Senator Rand Paul (KY) highlights the absurd regulatory realities faced by people like the Sacketts, Charlie Johnson (a former PLF client), and other landowners throughout the United States.  Sen. Paul provides a sober reminder that, despite the importance of yesterday’s landmark victory in Sackett v. EPA, much wo ...

Yesterday we saw how the extreme environmental community is having a difficult time figuring out how to spin PLF’s victory in Sackett v. EPA.   Some of them claim that the decision is no big deal (ignoring the decades of circuit law precedent that was overturned by the Supreme Court’s common sense decision), under the false … ...

Edward Morrissey’s “EPA Gets Epic Smackdown from Supreme Court” is currently trending as the most read story at The Fiscal Times. … ...

Last Thursday, E&E reporter Lawrence Hurley published this story on PLF’s landmark victory in Sackett v. EPA. The story is titled “Justice was blind to some facts in Idaho wetlands case,” and the impression one gets from reading it is that Mike and Chantell Sackett should not be viewed as sympathetically as common sense would ...