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As you may recall, PLF has moved to intervene in WildEarth Guardians v. DOJ, a case in which environmental groups seek to radically expand the criminal reach of the Endangered Species Act, contrary to its language and common sense. Ultimately, the case seeks to subject anyone who accidentally does anything that, unbeknownst to them, negatively affe ...

Earlier today, the San Francisco Daily Journal published Pacific Legal Foundation's op-ed on the Yates v. United States decision handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States this week.  In the piece, we laud the Supreme Court's important—and correct—decision. The op-ed expands on the point PLF made in its amicus brief on behalf of Yates—t ...

caption id="attachment_27933" align="alignright" width="214" The sun sets on a fishy federal prosecution./caption The news this morning brought word that the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of Captain John Yates of the Miss Katie in his eight-year battle with the federal government about some undersized fish he caught. Pacific ...

caption id="attachment_27114" align="alignright" width="169" "Dedicated to Fishermen Lost at Sea"/caption William Kent Suter, Former Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, recently observed that the federal government had "lost four cases dealing with fundamental rights in unanimous decisions," and that "the positions taken by the gove ...