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This week, PLF filed notice that we will be appealing the district court decision upholding the jaguar critical habitat rule, on behalf of the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau, New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association, and New Mexico Federal Lands Council. The designation of critical habitat for jaguar in New Mexico unnecessarily ties thousa ...

In 2014, the federal government designated thousands of acres in New Mexico as "critical habitat" for the jaguar. The designation is absurd, because as cat-lovers know, jaguars prefer the wet, tropical climates of Central and South America forests, to the dry, arid wilderness of the Southwest. The designation should also trouble liberty-lovers, bec ...

Regulatory Guidance on wetlands Jurisdictional Determinations West Hollywood shakedown -- Property Rights Palo Alto shakedown -- Property Rights Florida island taken in the Keys -- Property Rights A California tax-limitation up in smoke up in Upland Endangered Species Act -- wolves into New Mexico Alchemy -- Wetlands and from dry u ...

caption id="attachment_36896" align="alignright" width="300" Looking for big cats in all the wrong places/caption Calling New Mexico essential to the conservation of the jaguar is kind of like calling your garbage can essential to a raccoon just because you found one snooping through the garbage once. That's why PLF filed this opening brief chal ...

The only jaguars that you are likely to find today in New Mexico are at this dealership in Albuquerque. But that didn't stop the federal government from designating tens of thousands of acres in Hidalgo County, in the southwestern corner of the state, as critical habitat for the endangered big cat whose primary habitat is the jungles and swamps ...

Obama care -- Oral Argument The D.C. Circuit court of appeals heard oral argument on May 9 in Sissel v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, our Origination Clause challenge to the individual mandate tax contained in the so-called Affordable Care Act.  The questioning from the panel of three judges was vigorous and we expect that whateve ...

The New Mexico legislature is currently debating a bill, HB 194, which would reform that state's cumbersome Public Utility Commission. Sadly, some reform advocates mistakenly think it would "reduce or remove the barriers preventing new taxi, shuttle, bus, limo, and moving companies from opening." In fact, it would do no such thing. While the bill ...