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At PLF, we frequently discuss the problems and burdens associated with occupational licensing. Despite the ever-growing chorus of groups (right, left, and libertarian) calling for government at all levels to reconsider the over-licensing of American workers, all too often we've had the displeasure of reporting on courts rubber stamping licensing sc ...

The Competitive Enterprise Institute's Michelle Minton has a new paper highlighting the importance of the Supreme Court ruling the right way in New Jersey's challenge to the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. As Michelle explains, and PLF, CEI, Cato, and WILL explained in our amicus brief in the case, PASPA has been a failure. From Mic ...

caption id="attachment_43624" align="alignright" width="247" By Eric R from Scranton, PA/caption This morning, the Supreme Court decided to review New Jersey's constitutional challenge to a federal law that purports to forbid almost every state---except, notably, Nevada---from legalizing sports gambling. PLF, joined by Cato and CEI, filed an amicu ...

States are not puppets of the federal government, to be manipulated to accomplish whatever policy the federal government might prefer. If they were, both individual liberty and political accountability would be compromised. That's why our Constitution forbids the feds from requiring states to govern according to federal instructions. caption id="a ...

This week, I participated in a Federalist Society teleconference call on the Third Circuit's recent en banc arguments over New Jersey's efforts to repeal its prohibitions against sports gambling. That call has since been released as a podcast and is available here. As you may recall, PLF (along with the Cato Institute) filed an amicus brief aski ...

The PLF Atlantic Center does not slow down for the holidays. In just the last few weeks, we have filed briefs in the North Carolina Supreme Court, a Florida appellate court, argued a case before the New Jersey Supreme Court, and won an administrative case against the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission. You can click the links to read about thos ...

Last month, the Constitution won a hand in an Atlantic City Court. That's a victory for all Americans. The New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA), a state agency, sought to take the Atlantic City family home of Charlie Birnbaum. Birnbaum's family had owned the home for decades, but that didn't matter to state bureaucrats. The ...

  PLF went racing in the streets this week up to the swamps of Jersey to file an amicus brief in an arbitration case pending at the New Jersey Supreme Court. In Morgan v. Sanford Brown, we argue that the Court should uphold a lower court decision to enforce an arbitration agreement and send the parties to arbitration. PLF has reason to believ ...

caption id="" align="alignright" width="158" Not the Statue of Big Government/caption Property owners in New York and New Jersey learned again this week that their state courts often reject property rights in favor of creative ways to take private property in a manner that violates the Fifth Amendment. In New York, the court upended a centuries-o ...