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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 ...

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Weekly litigation report — March 11, 2017

March 11, 2017 | By JAMES BURLING

Going to sea to challenge a National Monument 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 national monument under the Antiquities Act. We simply don’t think that an area in the ocean the size of Connecticut can qualify as a monument ...