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Last Friday, the Second Circuit upheld a longstanding New York requirement that out-of-state attorneys must maintain a physical office in the state to practice New York law--a requirement not imposed on attorneys who reside within the Empire state. The 154-year-old office space requirement (N.Y. Judiciary Law § 470) originally worked to exempt adja ...

Last Friday, PLF and the Cato Institute filed an amicus brief in another attempt to get the Supreme Court to finally overrule Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City. Frequent readers of the Liberty Blog will recall that Williamson County requires property owners to bring their Takings Clause claims in state ...

Last week the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in Windsor v. United States of America striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional. In particular, the Court found that Section 3's denial of federal spousal benefits to legally married same sex couples violated the equal protection component of the Fifth A ...