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Takings victories made harder

March 24, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: R. S. Radford Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago is universally acclaimed as one of the nation’s foremost champions of private property rights. This well-deserved reputation dates back to his classic 1985 text, Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain. The Cato Institute, a Washington, DC think tan ...

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Ninth Circuit’s “goofy factor” opens door to Supreme Court review of rent control

February 04, 2011 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: R. S. Radford It’s widely known that the Supreme Court reverses the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals more often than any other court on the planet.  This is not just because the Ninth is the largest of the federal circuits.  It has more to do with the fact that such a large proportion of … ...

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Reason on Harmon v. Markus

January 18, 2012 | By JOSHUA THOMPSON

Reason put together this nice video on Harmon v. Markus, a case in which PLF urges the Supreme Court to take up the plight of a landowner who has been subjected to New York City’s Rent Stabilization Law.  PLF’s brief is featured in the video and was joined by the Cato Institute and Small Property Owners of … ...

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Reason on New York rent-control case

March 13, 2012 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

Reason’s Damon Root has an article on the Harmon case, in which the Supreme Court has been asked to take another look at New York’s perverse and iniquitous rent-control laws. You can check out PLF’s brief in the case here. … ...

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Supreme Court won't vacate NYC rent controls

April 23, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.; April 23, 2012: The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will not hear Harmon v. Kimmel, a suit targeting New York City’s rent stabilization law as a violation of the Fifth Amendment ban on the uncompensated taking of private property. As the nation’s leading legal watchdog organization for property rights, Pacif ...

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Today : PLF and Wall Street Journal discuss rent control

April 24, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

PLF Principal Attorney R. S. Radford and members of The Wall Street Journal editorial board will discuss New York City’s rent control, and the constitutional challenge to the policy, LIVE at 2PM, on their website: www.wsj.com. Read the press release. … ...

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President's weekly report — August 1, 2014

August 01, 2014 | By ROB RIVETT

Obamacare — When is a Tax not a Tax? We received a negative decision from the D.C. Circuit in Sissel v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  This was our challenge to the Obamacare scheme based on the fact that the taxes in the statute did not originate in the House of Representatives, as … ...

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San Francisco still trying to force landlords to pay for tenants' high rent

June 22, 2016 | By CALEB TROTTER

In 2014 PLF successfully asked a federal court to strike down a San Francisco ordinance that required landlords to pay their tenants the difference between the rent they charged (often low due to rent control policies) and the current market rent for two years if the landlord removed their property from the rental market under … ...

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Weekly litigation report — June 24, 2015

June 24, 2016 | By JAMES BURLING

Equality under the law project — loss at the Supreme Court San Francisco still trying to use landlords as ATMs California Department of Forestry malfeasance California Supreme Court allows questionable tort claim to move forward Equality under the law project — loss at the Supreme Court Our side lost in Fisher v. University of Texas &# ...