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Paging Jack Sparrow
February 28, 2013 | By TONY FRANCOIS
As I am wont to say, things are what they are, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agrees: even a ‘public interest pirate’ is still just a pirate. Judicial opinions are usually pretty stuffy affairs, full of long complex sentances and arcane vocabulary; the sort of prose that only lawyers could love. They also … ...
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Batten down the outhouse! Here comes a flood of regulation.
August 10, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
Author: Brian T. Hodges Why are the feds trying to convince Washington’s cities and counties to adopt new development regulations that could limit a landowner’s right to have an outhouse, trailer, or even mow his lawn? It’s because 6 years ago, in National Wildlife Federation v. FEMA, 345 F. Supp. 2d 1151 (W. Dist. Wa ...