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State "Competitor's Veto" laws and the right to earn a living

March 24, 2015 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

The Mercatus Center has published my paper on Competitor’s Veto laws—laws that force you to get permission from your own competition before you’re allowed to start a business—and how the federal government could protect people from such violations of their constitutional right to earn a living. My paper describes in detail the evide ...

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Release : Missouri’s moving-business cartel, challenged by PLF, is now officially repealed

July 11, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Jefferson City, MO; July 11, 2012:  Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed legislation this week repealing the state’s anticompetitive licensing law for moving businesses.  The development marks the final victory in a pro-free-enterprise battle that began when Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys challenged the law’s constitutionality in Ju ...

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Missouri legislature passes bill to repeal the state’s mover monopoly

May 18, 2012 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

This afternoon, in the final hours of the legislative session, Missouri lawmakers passed two bills, SB 470 and HB 1402, both of which repeal the state’s anti-competitive laws regulating moving companies. This came in direct response to PLF’s lawsuit challenging these laws on behalf of St. Louis businessman Michael Munie. The bills would ...

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Court will hear PLF challenge to Missouri’s moving monopoly

April 26, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

St. Louis, MO.; April 26, 2012 — Tomorrow morning (April 27), PLF Principal Attorney Timothy Sandefur will present arguments in federal court challenging the constitutionality of a Missouri law that requires an entrepreneur to essentially get permission from his or her own competition before starting a moving company.  Representing St. Louis ...