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June 14 Debate : Are feds’ water cutoffs to help Delta smelt unconstitutional?

June 10, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

You are invited to a DEBATE on Monday, June 14, in Sacramento:  "Fish, farmers and the Constitution: Are the feds' regulations to help the Delta smelt unconstitutional?" This debate is sponsored by the Federalist Society of Sacramento, the Presiding Justice Robert K. Puglia Chapter. Federal Endangered Species Act regulations to ...

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Discussing Stop the Beach Renourishment with the Federalist Society

July 13, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: James S. Burling The podcast I did on the Supreme Court's decision in Stop the Beach Renourishment is now available on the Federalist Society's website.  You can listen to the podcast by going here.  … ...

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School choice before the Supreme Court

December 09, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Joshua Thompson In this podcast, produced by the Federalist Society, I discuss the case of Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn.  You can read PLF's amicus brief in the case here. This case will have a profound impact the legality of innovative school choice programs throughout the country.  In the podcast I ...

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Debating race preferences

February 15, 2012 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

Yesterday several of my colleagues and I attended a debate at the King School of Law at UC Davis, hosted by the Federalist Society, on the role of race preferences in education.  Taking the anti-preference side of the debate was Ward Connerly, former UC Regent, a prominent advocate for ending all government race preferences, and … ...

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A new Sackett article

July 31, 2012 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

Check out the latest edition of the Federalist Society’s online publication Engage and you’ll find a casenote on Sackett. … ...

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Check out FedSoc's SCOTUSreport

August 09, 2012 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

The Federalist Society has begun a new blog, SCOTUSreport.com, to cover Supreme Court news and cases.  I have two posts up now discussing NFIB v. Sebelius and its application to ongoing Clean Air Act litigation. … ...

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PLF to participate on D.C. Federalist Society panel on Koontz

November 12, 2013 | By PAUL BEARD

I’ll be attending  the Federalist Society’s 2013 National Lawyers Convention at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C., this Thursday, November 14, through Saturday, November 16.  The convention includes lots of interesting panels on a variety of legal issues, along with addresses by Justice Clarence Thomas, Senators Ted Cruz and Mik ...

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Should courts replace trials with formulas for sake of convenience?

November 10, 2015 | By ANASTASIA BODEN

In this Federalist Society video, I discuss the Supreme Court case Tyson Foods Inc. v. Bouaphakeo––which the Court will hear today. In that case, a group of plaintiffs sued Tyson Foods for purportedly failing to pay them for the time they spent putting on and taking off their work clothing.  The plaintiffs worked in different … ...

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Court strikes down federal fracking regulations

June 24, 2016 | By JONATHAN WOOD

Over on the Federalist Society’s FEDSOC BLOG, I have a post discussing a recent decision from a federal court that federal bureaucrats overstepped their authority when they adopted fracking regulations. In 2005, Congress exempted fracking from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act (the primary federal statute intended to protect drinki ...