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Markle Interests' brief filed with High Court in Weyerhaeuser v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service This week we filed our merits brief in the Supreme Court supporting the landowers in Weyerhaeuser Co. v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service. Earlier this year, the Court granted review and we expect to hear soon from the Court when oral argu ...

Oral argument in Murr caption id="attachment_45027" align="alignright" width="221" John Groen argues as Justices Breyer and Sotomayor look on./caption We had our oral argument in Murr v. Wisconsin. It was a tough argument with lots of questions throughout the argument.  We trust our answers helped dispel some of that confusion.  All in all ...

Last week we announced that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected San Francisco's attempt to undo PLF's victory on behalf of San Francisco landlords in the Levin case. In that case, landlords who wished to remove their property from the rental market under California's Ellis Act were subject to a San Francisco ordinance that attempted to f ...

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the lunchtime meeting of the San Mateo Rotary Club. My remarks focused on PLF's property rights work, in particular cases addressing land-use exactions, rent control and related matters, and mobile home park regulation. These issues are particularly timely in San Mateo: tomorrow the city's voters will co ...

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 at ...

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 California's Ellis Ac ...

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 required by the Constitution.  As our press r ...

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. ...

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, Pacific Legal Fo ...