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PLF’s Damien Schiff, clients Mike and Chantell Sackett, Peter Nimrod provide testimony to Senator Rand Paul

October 12, 2011 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Anne Hayes This afternoon, United States Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky held a roundtable discussion in the Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building called "PROPERTY WRONGS: A discussion with the victims of the U.S. government's assault on private property".  He graciously invited PLF clients Mike ...

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In defense of the Sacketts part II

March 08, 2012 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

Some weeks ago I published an oped in the Spokane Spokesman-Review responding to a number of untrue and unfair attacks made against the Sacketts.  In that piece, I explained that the Sacketts reasonably believe that they have no wetlands on their property and that they need no federal wetlands fill permit.  Moreover, I established that … ...

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Sackett v. EPA : A due process problem of the Supreme Court’s own making?

March 09, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Some years ago, when I was an attorney here at Pacific Legal Foundation in our Environmental Law section, I worked on a Supreme Court wetlands case called Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. Army Corps of Engineers (SWANCC). In many ways, the Supreme Court’s decision in that case, and in two other cases, … ...