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This road to the Supreme Court takes PLF through the U-P caption id="" align="alignnone" width="538" The new route would cut trip distances in half, keep industrial mining trucks out of towns and traffic, and save 450,000 gallons of fuel a year. But the EPA obstructs./caption This week Pacific Legal Foundation filed its latest Petition for Wr ...

Another lawsuit to challenge Seattle's war on landlords This week, we sued to challenge Seattle's Fair Chance Housing Ordinance on behalf of several landlords and the Rental Housing Association of Washington in Yim v. City of Seattle. The Fair Chance Housing Ordinance forbids landlords from asking for a criminal background check or denying someo ...

We've written extensively about negative developments in California eminent domain use over the years, but today we filed this comment letter with the California Senate Judiciary Committee in support of a positive reform attempt, SB 1167. SB 1167 would require governments to issue a final offer of compensation whenever they initiate condemnati ...

One of the key protections enshrined by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is the requirement that any exercise of eminent domain must be for a valid public use. Properly applied, the public purpose clause is intended to guard against private takings because any "law that takes property from A and gives it to B is against all reason and ...

Today, Forbes writer George Leef published an article on Brott v. United States, a case before the Supreme Court in which PLF participated as amicus. The Forbes piece discusses PLF's brief and urges the high court to review the unconstitutional practice of denying a jury to victims of federal land grabs. ...

PLF supports property owners' right to a jury in federal takings cases Code violations should not be a city's no-appeal cash machine PLF announces appeal to illegal jaguar rule Coastal Commission tries to force city to destroy property rights Courts should rule in the best interests of Indian children -- just like other children are ...

Today, we filed an amicus brief, joined by our friends at Reason and American Civil Rights Union, urging the Supreme Court to grant Brott v. United States, a case about whether property owners are entitled to a jury when the federal government takes their land. If the federal government takes your property, who would you want to decide how much ...

PLF asks Supreme Court to protect free speech San Francisco loses again in case over extortionate demands on property owners Sixth Circuit holds that victims of federal takings do not enjoy the right to a jury California Supreme Court hears case that could eviscerate Proposition 13 Farming "mini-mountains" case proceeds PLF asks ...

May the government allow strangers to recreate on your private, beach-front property for free? That's the question the Indiana Supreme Court is being asked to consider in an important property-rights case. At issue is the common-law "Public Trust Doctrine," according to which a state holds navigable waters and the land beneath "in trust" for public ...