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As the President prepares to nominate a new Supreme Court justice, one of the major issues likely to turn on that choice is the fate of Chevron deference. According to that infamous doctrine, courts must defer to agency's interpretations of the statutes they administer unless that interpretation is patently unreasonable. In practice, courts have us ...

PLF won an important case in the Supreme Court of the United States last week, holding that our clients have the right to sue the EPA over its 2015 "waters of the United States" regulatory land grab in federal trial courts across the nation. This ends EPA's 30 month delaying tactic of litigating over which court we are allowed to see the agency in, ...

This weekend, Senator Mike Lee of Utah and I had an article in the Wall Street Journal urging the Supreme Court to hear People for the Ethical Treatment of Property Owners v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service---PLF's challenge to a federal regulation that frustrates the recovery of the Utah prairie dog and threatens to erode any limits on the federal ...

When Wayside Church fell behind on its 2011 property taxes on a parcel that the church had used as a youth camp, Van Buren County took the youth camp property and sold it for $206,000 to pay the church's $16,750 in taxes, penalties, interest, and fees. The County kept the surplus proceeds—$189,250 more than the debt—as a windfall. Similarly, the Co ...

Supreme Court requests further briefing in affordable housing case Victory in Anaheim parent-trigger case Brief opposing EPA regulatory overkill Senate hearing addresses PLF wetlands case WOTUS at SCOTUS Wolf Releases Revived Supreme Court requests further briefing in affordable housing case At least some of the justices at ...

We got some disappointing news yesterday when the Tenth Circuit overturned the federal district court's decision that federal regulations prohibiting the take of Utah prairie dogs exceed the federal government's constitutional powers. As you may not recall, since more than 18 months passed between oral argument and the decision, PLF is challenging ...

The Supreme Court of the United States today received PLF's Reply Brief on the Merits in Murr v. Wisconsin, filed on behalf of the Murr family. The case is now fully briefed, and ready for scheduling oral argument. It is expected that the Court will soon set an oral argument date, most likely in November. This case presents a long-standing and dif ...

caption id="" align="alignright" width="148" PLF Interim President and CEO John Groen/caption Robin Bravender covers the Supreme Court and lower federal courts beat for Greenwire, and she usually captures the details that others miss. This week she previewed important cases the Supreme Court will consider next term, and Bravender focused on a numb ...

On June 28, The Heritage Foundation will host a panel on Capitol Hill titled "Reducing the Regulatory Obstacles in Agriculture." While government has imposed many regulatory obstacles on individuals and business owners in virtually every industry, those that farmers face are multiplying rapidly. As we've explained many times on Liberty Blog, one of ...