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Fox News features PLF Supreme Court case

December 18, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Steven Gieseler Earlier this week, Fox News produced this report, and FoxNews.com ran this story, on the case of Florida property owner Gilbert Fornatora.  PLF attorneys, as lead counsel in the case, have petitioned the United States Supreme Court to hear Fornatora's appeal, which centers on three decades of gov ...

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High Court to Consider Government's Low Tactics

December 28, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Steven Gieseler That's the title of my column posted today on the American Thinker's website.  The tactics in question are the subject of a petition to the United States Supreme Court, filed by PLF attorneys, seeking review of a particularly egregious federal abuse of the eminent domain power in South Florida. On ...

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Lewis v. Chicago : Chicago Fire Department douses claims of discrimination

February 22, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Ralph W. Kasarda The United States Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Lewis v. City of Chicago. In this case, African-American fire department applicants sued the City of Chicago under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They claimed that a written examination was discriminatory when it resulted in Chicago’s decision ...

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If at first you don’t succeed, change the rules!

April 28, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Brian T. Hodges Earlier today, Washington’s Supreme Court granted review of a petition asking whether the Legislature can enact a bill that would operate retroactively to wipe out several years of final judicial decisions. Last year, Pacific Legal Foundation successfully argued that Kitsap County, Wash. failed to comply with the ...

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A victory for common sense; a loss for disparate impact theory

June 22, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Joshua Thompson Pacific Legal Foundation is happy to report on a great victory for equality under the law.  In Oakley v. City of Memphis, the United States District Court for the Western District Tennessee, relying chiefly on the Ricci decision, held that a group of forty Caucasian and African-American police officers were discriminat ...

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A Frederick Douglass follow-up

July 06, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Joshua Thompson The PLF Liberty Blog received some record hits this past week, largely as a result of Tim Sandefur’s post, “Give us the freedom intended for us.”  The post received numerous links from both The Volokh Conspiracy and Instapundit.  For those that haven’t read it, here’s a snippet: In Dec ...

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Discussing Stop the Beach Renourishment with the Federalist Society

July 13, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: James S. Burling The podcast I did on the Supreme Court's decision in Stop the Beach Renourishment is now available on the Federalist Society's website.  You can listen to the podcast by going here.  … ...

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Sacketts just asking for their day in court

December 16, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Anne Hayes Early this morning, PLF clients Mike and Chantell Sackett had the opportunity to tell the American public about their story of abuse at the hands of EPA bureaucrats, when Fox and Friends co-anchor Steve Doocy interviewed them in his “It’s Your Land” feature. Just what is going on here? When the Sacketts ̷ ...

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Supreme Court refuses to hear water dispute

January 13, 2011 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff This week, the Supreme Court denied cert in Grant County Black Sands Irrigation District v. United States Bureau of Reclamation.  PLF had filed an amicus brief on behalf of several water districts here in California urging the Court to take up the case, which concerned the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals' ...