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February 10, 2023 at 7:22 PM

The Docket - Three years later, California landlords still fighting COVID eviction ban

The Hill: Must an Antioch student bow down to ‘social justice’ dogma to graduate?   A self-described liberal graduate student at Antioch University in Seattle has incurred the wrath of her college by criticizing their radical approach to training therapists. Leslie Elliott, who con…

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February 3, 2023 at 7:24 PM

The Docket - She lost her childhood home over taxes. Then it erupted in flames.

The New York Times: She lost her childhood home over taxes. Then it erupted in flames.   For years, Eve Morawski waged an epic battle against real estate investors who bought her tax debt and ultimately seized her Maplewood, N.J., home. The linchpin of this gripping, tragic tale is…

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January 27, 2023 at 8:28 PM

The Docket - Now streaming Trust Us, a film about government’s ‘expert’ problem

New PLF documentary, Trust Us, reveals government’s ‘expert’ problem   For nearly every aspect of American life—the food you eat, the house you live in, the way you raise your kids—there is an expert in the federal government who thinks you’re doing it wrong.   In Trust Us, a new d…

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January 20, 2023 at 7:27 PM

The Docket - PLF defends property rights (again) at the Supreme Court

The Hill: Eleven states have ended judicial deference to executive agencies—more should follow their lead   In federal and state courts around the country, Americans often face an uneven playing field when they square off against executive agencies, thanks to doctrines that require…

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January 17, 2023 at 7:07 PM

Supreme Court to hear third PLF case this term

    I’m thrilled to share the news that the Supreme Court will hear Tyler v. Hennepin County, stemming from a 94-year-old widow’s fight to end “home equity theft” in Minnesota and across the nation. A home’s equity, often representing owners’ retirement and life savings, is …

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January 13, 2023 at 7:08 PM

The Docket - How a cat with a gunshot wound is bringing property rights disputes before the Supreme Court

The Hill: Special interest should not control licensing board appointments   The U.S. Supreme Court reprimanded the North Carolina Board of Dentistry in 2015 for loading up with active market participants who were incentivized to shut down their competition. Steve Slivinski explai…

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January 6, 2023 at 7:51 PM

The Docket - Expect more headlines from the Supreme Court in the new year

The Hill: Expect more headlines from the Supreme Court in the new year   After an action-packed start to the term, the Supreme Court returns to the bench next week for the first winter oral argument sitting. And while the term was frontloaded with headline-grabbing cases, Elizabeth…

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December 23, 2022 at 7:33 PM

The Docket - Two states are using race to distribute COVID relief to struggling homeowners

Victory! Busking now legal in Houston   Tony Barilla’s quest to play music on Houston street corners led him into a frustrating maze of bureaucracy. Busking was outright banned in most of the city. Even in Houston’s Theater District, where busking was allowed, Tony ran into brick wa…

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December 16, 2022 at 7:25 PM

The Docket - California landlords struggle under eviction bans

In America, the law—not unelected bureaucrats—is king   As support swelled for America’s independence from England, an open question puzzled some hesitant colonists: Who will lead the new country? Thomas Paine had an answer: “In America, the law is king.” What followed was a legal …

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December 9, 2022 at 6:39 PM

The Docket - Former Seattle employee sues over racially hostile work environment

Fox News: Seattle city employee sues over ‘racially hostile work environment’   Joshua Diemert was a model employee at Seattle’s Department of Human Services—but he’s now suing the city for treating and evaluating employees based on race. Fox News interviewed Joshua and his attorn…

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December 2, 2022 at 5:11 PM

The Docket - Montana ‘mountain man’ goes to the Supreme Court to protect property rights

A Montana ‘mountain man’ goes to the Supreme Court to protect property rights   On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard argument in Wilkins v. United States. The case is PLF’s 18th taken up by the Court and aims to secure Wil Wilkins’ rightful day in court to defend his property righ…

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November 18, 2022 at 4:32 PM

The Docket - The battle to end Seattle’s ‘racial equity’ workplace policies

The Hill: The Supreme Court failed Asian Americans a century ago. What will it do now?   One hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an Asian man could not become an American citizen—because of his race. Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court considered whether universities…

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November 11, 2022 at 4:52 PM

Watch PLF's new film: School board is 'obsessed' with racial equity

Upset Virginia parents speak out in new film about Thomas Jefferson High School   It’s the top-ranked public high school in the country—but now, thanks to an activist school board, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology has become an ideological battleground where s…

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November 4, 2022 at 3:27 PM

The Docket - What if the Supreme Court ends affirmative action in higher ed?

Fox News: If Supreme Court ends affirmative action, here’s what could happen next   This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a pair of cases questioning the constitutionality of affirmative action in college admissions. If the Court rules against Harvard and the Univers…

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October 28, 2022 at 3:24 PM

The Docket - California’s fortunate escape from the next racial quota

California Globe: Another unconstitutional racial quota bites the dust—for now   Just in time for Halloween, the State of California has properly dealt with zombie legislation. Andrew Quinio explains how a bill to bring a racial quota back from the dead made it to the governor’s d…

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October 21, 2022 at 3:36 PM

The Docket - When anti-racism demands racism—at the expense of civil rights

Victory! Sixth Circuit saves widow’s $277,000 from Michigan’s home equity theft   The years-long nightmare is over for Michigan nursing assistant Tawanda Hall, who lost her home valued at $300,000 to satisfy a $22,262 property tax debt.   After the county refused to refund her the …

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October 7, 2022 at 4:09 PM

The Docket - Fighting EPA overreach at the Supreme Court

The Hill: A decade in the life of defending an American family from the EPA   Tony Francois has represented Mike and Chantell Sackett from day one of their 15-year legal battle for the right to build a house without first getting the government’s permission. On Monday, Tony joined …

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September 30, 2022 at 3:55 PM

The Docket - Lawsuit aims to stop Biden administration’s lawless student loan cancellation

Fighting lawless student loan cancellation to restore separation of powers   On August 24, 2022, President Biden revealed his plans to cancel federal student debt for more than 40 million borrowers. With a one-time price tag of $500 billion, the plan is astonishing enough. But it’s…

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September 23, 2022 at 3:32 PM

The Docket - It takes the grit of a ‘mountain man’ to protect his land against the government

It takes the grit of a ‘mountain man’ to protect his land against the government   “I’m just a mountain man at heart,” says Wil Wilkins, the petitioner in one of PLF’s upcoming Supreme Court cases, Wilkins v. USA. He loves his home in Bitterroot National Forest—which is why he’s fi…

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September 16, 2022 at 3:22 PM

The Docket - [2:44 PM] Scott E. Barton PLF argues school admissions should be based on merit, not race.

The Fourth Circuit hears oral arguments in Coalition for TJ case   Getting into Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology will change a child’s life—which is why the admissions process should be fair and open to all, regardless of race. At oral arguments, PLF must con…

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September 9, 2022 at 3:23 PM

The Docket - Is Congress too broken to do its job?

The Hill: Louisiana law keeps special needs kids from getting care—one woman wants to change it   The Louisiana Department of Health admitted in a lawsuit what every parent of a special needs child knows: There is always a need for more care for this population. However, writes Ana…

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August 26, 2022 at 3:24 PM

The Docket - California’s ‘privilege’-based curricula are at odds with American ideals

Grandmother recovers $85,000 settlement after government gave away her house for pennies on the dollar   In January, Deborah Foss was thrown out of her New Bedford, Massachusetts, home over a property tax bill. She lived in her car while the company that evicted her through the ins…

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August 19, 2022 at 3:29 PM

The Docket - In fighting woke politics, censorship is not the answer

The Hill: Georgia entrepreneur fights crony protectionism that unfairly limits childbirth options   Katie Chubb is deeply concerned about childbirth options for expectant mothers. In her native United Kingdom, midwifery is a common practice. In Augusta, Georgia, where she and her fa…

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August 12, 2022 at 3:33 PM

The Docket - Biden’s war on charter schools

The Hill: DOJ’s proposed third-party settlement payment rule is ripe for abuse   Imagine that the Justice Department has settled a big case against a bank accused of discriminatory lending and a lot of settlement money remains unclaimed. What should happen to that leftover money? …

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August 5, 2022 at 3:31 PM

The Docket - California universities demand ‘diversity statements’ from job applicants

The Hill: We should prefer accountable government to rule by the administrative state   The Supreme Court’s highly consequential 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. EPA repudiated the Environmental Protection Agency’s claim that Congress gave the agency sweeping powers to create and pu…

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July 29, 2022 at 6:29 PM

The Docket - Construction entrepreneurs deserve opportunity, not racial quotas

Sackett v. EPA: Regulatory agencies gone rogue   From COVID-19 to climate change, we’re often told that today’s problems are too complex for the American people to understand, let alone address. We’re told to trust experts at places like the EPA, CDC, and even the Census Bureau, be…

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July 22, 2022 at 5:58 PM

The Docket - Federal agencies lay the groundwork to ignore the Supreme Court

Des Moines Register: Quota for nominating panel deprives Iowans of opportunities   In Iowa, qualified candidates for the State Judicial Nominating Commission are being rejected because of their gender. The state’s gender quota requires an equal number of male and female commissione…

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July 15, 2022 at 6:29 PM

The Docket - It’s time to reevaluate the Clean Water Act

The federal government should get out of the way of homebuilding   The federal government isn’t going to solve the housing crisis. With its multiple large, redundant, contradictory, unwieldy, and economically illiterate Washington-centric bureaucracies, we should neither expect nor …

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July 8, 2022 at 3:47 PM

The Docket - The Supreme Court is holding Congress accountable

Orange County Register: A return to common humanity    The civil rights movement once emphasized our common humanity—what we all share, rather than what divides us.    Sadly, the modern Progressive movement has lost this guiding star and now seems captivated by shallow differences …

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July 1, 2022 at 4:32 PM

The Docket - What the government gets to know about you should be your choice

What is Title IX?   Title IX went on the books in 1972 with the stated intention to provide men and women equal access to opportunities offered by institutions that receive federal government funding. Caleb Trotter takes a look back at the law’s impact, its relationship to sports,…

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June 24, 2022 at 4:28 PM

The Docket - ‘The Mother of the Boston Tea Party’ risked her life to defend her property

Club 519’s legal fight is over. Now they’re celebrating.   The pandemic was hard on all small businesses in North Carolina, but perhaps most of all on “private bars”—bars that make 75% or more of their profits from alcohol sales.     Club 519 was among the state’s private bars forc…

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June 17, 2022 at 5:26 PM

The Docket - California couple defeats Coastal Commission’s unlawful bureaucratic inertia

What is the Clean Water Act?   The Clean Water Act of 1972 has been one of the most impactful (for good and bad) pieces of legislation in American history. In fact, the Supreme Court will open its 2022-2023 term with PLF’s case, Sackett v. United States, to clarify the law’s defin…

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June 10, 2022 at 6:15 PM

The Docket - Another PLF case goes to the Supreme Court

Wilkins v. United States: Another PLF case goes to the Supreme Court   The Supreme Court agrees to hear oral arguments in only about 70 cases each term—out of roughly 7,000-8,000 cert petitions. Jeff McCoy and Nicole W.C. Yeatman share this week’s exciting news that the Supreme Co…

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June 6, 2022 at 6:02 PM

Supreme Court takes another PLF case

    Supreme Court will hear Wilkins v. United States of America I’m excited to share the good news that the Supreme Court announced today it will hear Wilkins v. United States of America, a case challenging a government bait-and-switch that tramples property rights and peace …

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June 3, 2022 at 4:36 PM

The Docket - Is affirmative action next for SCOTUS?

The Daily Caller: Is affirmative action next for SCOTUS?   Wen Fa spoke to The Daily Caller about what could happen in the next Supreme Court term in Harvard’s affirmative action case, in which Pacific Legal Foundation filed an amicus brief. “The Constitution demands that the gover…

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May 27, 2022 at 3:43 PM

The Docket - Marine veteran sues over unconstitutional DOJ rule

New case: Marine veteran sues over unconstitutional DOJ rule   A veteran in California is suing the Department of Justice anonymously over the DOJ’s new requirement that he register as a sex offender, despite the fact that his decades-old misdemeanor was long ago expunged. When Joh…

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May 13, 2022 at 3:32 PM

The Docket - Tenured professor, canceled by university, fights for free speech rights

This tenured professor is fighting for her right to free speech after university tried to cancel her   Dr. Elizabeth Weiss is a fully tenured anthropology professor at San Jose State University. Despite her provocative, long-held views on repatriation, she has drawn praise and suppo…

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May 7, 2022 at 4:18 PM

The Docket - John Stossel exposes government’s ‘tax and take’ scheme

Having trouble viewing this message? View it in your browser 05/07/2022 The Docket We’re trying out a new format for The Docket this week. Like it? Hate it? Please let us know. John Stossel’s exposé on home equity theft has outraged viewers: The short, ex…

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April 29, 2022 at 4:32 PM

The Docket - Supreme Court issues disappointing decision in TJ admissions case

Supreme Court: TJ’s discriminatory process will continue during appeal   Thomas Jefferson High School’s discriminatory admissions process will continue as litigation against the high school proceeds, after the Supreme Court declined our application to vacate an appeals court stay i…

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April 22, 2022 at 4:36 PM

The Docket - Emergency orders and the Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’

Emergency orders and the Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’   The Supreme Court’s process for deciding cases is intentionally slow and deliberate, normally taking more than a year. Sometimes, however, it’s necessary to speed things up. As Jim Burling explains, there’s a process for th…

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April 18, 2022 at 3:15 PM

The Docket - Fishermen fight President Biden’s bizarre ‘national monument’ designation

New PLF case: President Biden reboots Antiquities Act abuse with commercial fishing ban   To hard-working commercial fishermen, the Georges Bank area of the North Atlantic Ocean is an economic lifeline for New England’s iconic fishing communities and an important industry throughou…

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April 8, 2022 at 4:46 PM

The Docket - Meet the woman who lives in her car after Massachusetts stole her home

A Massachusetts woman is now living in her car after the state stole her home   Deborah Foss spent most of the winter living out of her car in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In January, the 67-year-old grandmother, in the throes of severe illnesses, lost her home and her life savings …

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April 1, 2022 at 4:48 PM

The Docket - Virginia court ruling on race-based school admissions is a welcome sign

The Hill: Virginia court ruling a welcome sign in fight to end race-based school admissions   Will 2022 be the year we finally see an end to discriminatory racial preferences in education? Erin Wilcox and Wen Fa bring us some welcome signs of change in the air. read more New P…

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March 25, 2022 at 4:37 PM

The Docket - Senators shouldn’t treat Supreme Court confirmation hearings as theater

The Hill: After two long years, it’s past time to end Newsom’s emergency powers   In March 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide public health emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing him to issue lockdown orders and close businesses however he saw…

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March 18, 2022 at 4:39 PM

The Docket - This nursing assistant lost her home to Michigan’s home equity theft scheme

This nursing assistant lost her home and her husband to Michigan’s home equity theft scheme   Tawanda Hall is a Michigan-based nursing assistant and a mother of four. For nearly a decade, she raised her family in a home she and her husband, Prentiss, purchased in the city of Southf…

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March 11, 2022 at 5:08 PM

The Docket - Elections don’t matter unless you have this rulemaking fix

The Hill: Elections don’t matter unless you have this rulemaking fix   Most politicians won’t soon forget the pandemic-restriction backlash that became evident in the November 2021 elections. But elections can’t touch those who aren’t elected, including those in charge of health an…

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March 4, 2022 at 5:38 PM

The Docket - Big victory for equality before law at America’s top high school

Restoring equality before the law—what the TJ victory means for education   In a ground-breaking decision, a federal judge ruled that Fairfax County, Virginia school officials violated the law by changing admissions requirements at Thomas Jefferson High School (TJ), the nation’s top…

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February 25, 2022 at 6:08 PM

The Docket - Get racial preferences out of medical treatment

Orange County Register: Voters send clear message to the San Francisco school board   There’s no mistaking the message last week’s recall election sent to the San Francisco Board of Education: Focus on education, not racial politics. Erin Wilcox writes that one motivation for the …

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February 4, 2022 at 5:35 PM

The end of affirmative action?

The Denver Post: This is why I’m suing the federal government over the minimum wage hike   Duke Bradford founded Arkansas River Adventures in Colorado in 1998, and in the quarter-century since, his experienced wilderness guides have led guests in adventure tours such as rafting, fi…

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January 28, 2022 at 6:29 PM

PLF to bring long-running Clean Water Act fight to Supreme Court

Supreme Court will review EPA’s navigable waters overreach   It’s back to the Supreme Court for PLF and an Idaho couple looking to end a 15-year battle with the federal government over the right to build a home on their property. The Justices this week announced they will hear Sack…

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