The Supreme Court announced that it will hear a First Amendment challenge to Minnesota's sweeping, speech-stifling restrictions on what can be worn while voting. In this week's episode of PLF's Courting Liberty podcast, hear from case attorney Wen Fa and client Andy Cilek as they break down the importance and gravity of their fight for free speech. ...
In this week's episode of PLF's Courting Liberty podcast, hear from case attorney Ethan Blevins about this decision and how First Amendment rights include both the right to speak and the right not to speak. ...
Hear directly from PLF client Kaiden Johnson and his mother, Miranda Lynch, as they explain their willingness to fight for the right that school athletics can't turn kids away based on their sex. ...
For Back to School Choice Week 2015, I am reposting my podcast with Andrew Coulson, Director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute. It is the best podcast I have been a part of, and it is especially apt for Back to School Choice Week. Andrew and I discuss a variety of school ...
PLF is suing over the feds' sweeping new definition of "waters of the United States," which is so broad that it could impose The Clean Water Act on virtually any water – and land – anywhere. Click here to listen to host Richard G. Fields discuss the upcoming suit with PLF Principal Attorney M. Reed ...
This week, PLF launched a webpage dedicated to our nationwide campaign against Competitor’s Veto laws. We also released a bunch of fun materials to familiarize people with those unfair and unconstitutional statutes—and to show exactly what PLF is doing to fight them. This video explains where the Competitor’s Veto came from i ...
PLF’s podcast this week is with Andrew Coulson, Director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute. Coulson is a leading voice for school choice across the country. In the podcast, Coulson and I discuss a wide range of school choice issues from the problem with teachers’ unions to the differences between vouchers an ...
I was recently interviewed on the Power and Market Report about Uber, Lyft, VRBO and other innovations which are providing consumers with excellent new services. Naturally the old regime is not pleased, and has taken to lobbying state legislatures to step in and ban the competition. I discuss PLF’s efforts to fight anti-competitive laws w ...
Last week, my Pacific Legal Foundation Atlantic Center colleague, Christina Martin, blogged about the PLF Atlantic Center’s new lawsuit against Martin County, Florida. Pacific Legal has asked the state circuit court to declare that Martin County’s government is illegally prohibiting its clients, Robert and Anita Breinig, from using ...
This week’s PLF podcast is celebrating Back to School Choice Week. I discuss a number of cases that PLF is working on to ensure that parents and children have a meaningful choice in their education. I am also joined by Ashley Indrieri, PLF’s Outreach Coordinator and Grant Writer, who gives a mother’s perspective on school ...