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Wolves in your backyard?

July 22, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff This week, the Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition to the Department of the Interior to have the United States Fish & Wildlife Service develop a nationwide wolf recovery program that could lead to the introduction of "wolf populations in suitable habitat in the Pacific Northwest, ...

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Drakes Bay Oyster Company showdown with federal government in Ninth Circuit next Tuesday

May 07, 2013 | By TONY FRANCOIS

Next Tuesday, Drakes Bay Oyster Company will face the most important hearing to date in its battle for survival with the federal government, which has illegally denied the Oyster Company a renewed permit to operate within Point Reyes National Seashore.  You can read more of the background of their fight here or by listening to … ...

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PLF files amicus brief in Supreme Court in support of State of Alaska

December 06, 2013 | By TONY FRANCOIS

The State of Alaska has asked the United States Supreme Court to review a decision of the Ninth Circuit which says that the federal government, instead of the state, has the power to regulate hunting and fishing in navigable waters in Alaska.  PLF has filed an amicus brief in support of Alaska, encouraging the high … ...

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US Supreme Court declines to hear Drakes Bay Oyster Company appeal

June 30, 2014 | By TONY FRANCOIS

Pacific Legal Foundation is very disappointed that the court declined to hear this very important case.  For now, Americans in certain parts of the country will remain subject to second class citizenship, because the federal courts are closed to them when federal agencies terminate their permits and licenses, even when those actions destroy jobs ...