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For nearly the entirety of Pacific Legal Foundation's history, Justice Kennedy has been on the bench. We first appeared before him when he was a judge on the Ninth Circuit and PLF was mostly litigating in California. And then, for the past 30 years, PLF attorneys argued before him many times at the Supreme Court as our presence grew nationwide and ...

Victory for the First Amendment! Challenging Florida's Tone Deaf Hearing Aid Bureaucrats Supreme Court Splits on Salmon Santa Barbara Association of Realtors v. City of Santa Barbara Victory for the First Amendment! caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" Gadsen flag no longer banned/caption Political speech is the most p ...

Happiness is a burger on a warm bun, a cold draft beer and freedom of speech Courts shouldn't look the other way when federal agencies seize power Congress never gave them Common sense prevails in Regulatory Flexibility Act case California agency's "sky-is-falling" argument unsupported by the facts On the road to the Supreme Court ...

The Constitution protects property rights from unelected government agencies Holding state administrative agencies accountable to the law Does "land owned or controlled by the Federal Government" include the ocean? PLF sues Seattle for banning new housing websites Democracy vouchers violate free speech PLF responds to Seattle's a ...

caption id="attachment_59054" align="alignright" width="422" This nefarious website is so dangerous that Seattle banned it before bothering to understand it./caption Today, we sued Seattle for banning a website. The city council decided that it didn't like new housing websites that allow tenants to bid on rent. The city council had no evidence t ...

Today, PLF sued Seattle over another newfangled experiment--the so-called "Fair Chance Housing Ordinance." The ordinance prohibits landlords from doing any criminal background checks on potential tenants or turning down a housing application because of past crimes. The law's purpose is to help former convicts reintegrate. Its effect is to strip lan ...

Department of Interior proposes repeal of illegal and counterproductive Endangered Species Act regulation Landowners and some conservationists have long complained about a decision made decades ago by the Fish & Wildlife Service to regulate "threatened" species the exact same as "endangered" species. This has diverted critical resources from ...

Washington limits the reach of the public trust doctrine. Congress gets an earful on the problems with the federal permitting process Amicus Brief Filed in Challenge to San Francisco's Discriminatory Sign Ban Santa Barbara inspection case headed to a hearing Washington limits the reach of the public trust doctrine. Yesterday, the ...

caption id="attachment_57508" align="alignright" width="300" From Berkeley's Free Speech Movement in the 1960's/caption We need to stop telling ourselves that stifling speech is about inclusivity. It isn't. Yesterday, the New York Times published an article titled "What College Students Really Think About Free Speech," which analyzed survey data ...