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caption id="attachment_49691" align="alignright" width="300" Alfred Hitchcock planning sequel to The Birds featuring bureaucrats from south Florida and helpless property owners in the role made famous by Tippy Hedren./caption This past week Cato Institute, Southeastern Legal Foundation, and the NFIB Small Business Legal Center filed amicus  ...

caption id="attachment_49584" align="alignright" width="282" Florida's Second District of Appeal/caption On Tuesday, Florida's Second District Court of Appeal will hold oral arguments in a number of cases, including in Pacific Legal Foundation's P.I.E., LLC v. DeSoto County. Christina Martin and I will represent P.I.E., and Christina will argue ...

caption id="attachment_48035" align="alignright" width="203" Alexander Hamilton/caption Sunday marks the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States. Pacific Legal Foundation celebrates Constitution Day this year with a column about a Founding Father and signer of the Constitution who now stars in the Broadway hit ...

On behalf of its client the Marquette County Road Commission, today Pacific Legal Foundation filed its Reply Brief in Marquette County Road Commission v. EPA, a case now pending before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. In this important administrative and environmental law case, PLF and Mike Patwell, a Michigan environmental law sp ...

caption id="attachment_46526" align="aligncenter" width="940" Florida alligator ready to greet Nazis and KKK members in Gainesville./caption How should local public officials, be they police officers, city officials, or university presidents, protect First Amendment free speech rights when the safety of the public is put at risk by those looking f ...

caption id="attachment_46414" align="alignright" width="300" Marquette, Michigan/caption When we last blogged about our Marquette County Road Commission v. EPA case, we reported that we had filed our principal brief opposing the government's efforts to stymie our client's efforts to build a much-needed public road in the upper peninsula of Mich ...

caption id="attachment_46257" align="alignright" width="300" The Treasure State/caption Today Pacific Legal Foundation asked the Ninth Circuit to accept an amicus brief, written on behalf of Mike and Chantell Sackett, as well as John Duarte and Duarte Nursery, supporting the defendant in United States v. Joseph David Robertson. The issue we comm ...

caption id="attachment_46176" align="alignright" width="300" DeSoto County Courthouse in southern Florida/caption The Florida Legislature expects the courts of this bonny state to protect property rights. But the courts have not gotten the message. Time after time, the courts of the state fail to protect the property rights of Florida land owner ...

Thanks to the Vero Beach Press-Journal editorial board for publishing a very nice editorial on Sunday in support of Pacific Legal Foundation and PLF client J.P. Krause. From the editorial: Krause and his parents knew how unfairly he'd been treated when he was disqualified from his senior class presidency and called Laurence Reisman, a TCPalm co ...