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Weekly litigation report — March 11, 2017

March 11, 2017 | By JAMES BURLING

Going to sea to challenge a National Monument caption id="" align="alignright" width="335" Lobsters thank Obama for new National Monument. Working fishermen and lobstermen are not so happy./caption We filed this complaint challenging President Obama's lame-duck designation of 5,000 square miles of ocean off the Massachusetts coast to be a new nat ...

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PLF defends property owners’ rights from bureaucratic abuse

August 19, 2014 | By JONATHAN WOOD

In 2010, the Alameda County Grand Jury sharply condemned Oakland's Building Services Division -- which enforces building code violations -- concluding that it had created an "atmosphere of hostility and intimidation towards property owners." In the four years since, little has changed. PLF has filed an opening brief in the California Court of Ap ...