Courting Liberty

Key members of Pacific Legal Foundation’s development team discuss the various ways Americans can make charitable year-end gifts to advance PLF’s pro-freedom mission in the courts. 

PLF Director of Litigation James Burling discusses the most significant PLF cases of 2013 with PLF attorneys Meriem Hubbard, Damien Schiff, and Paul Beard.  From challenges to state-sponsored discrimination, to the defense of private property rights, and to the quest for a balanced application of our environmental laws, PLF had a great year in 2013 and is looking forward to an even better 2014.

PLF principal attorney Paul J. Beard II discusses the ongoing challenge to the California Coastal Commission's demands that three sisters give up a public-access easement across their Central Coast property as a condition for getting a permit to repair an old farm house and barn.

PLF defends Encinitas homeowners who are denied permits for to replace a seawall and beach staircase that were destroyed by a storm

PLF Principal Attorney Timothy Sandefur discusses the importance of property rights to the Pilgrims and to modern day Americans.

Members of PLF’s Coastal Land Rights Project discuss the year’s significant rulings in property rights cases in America’s coastal areas.

PLF takes San Jose to the state Supreme Court over its “inclusionary” housing mandate that can spike housing costs and depress supply

In briefing to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Mt. Holly case, PLF targets “disparate impact” – a theory that would allow “discrimination” lawsuits without evidence of intent

PLF Principal Attorney Timothy Sandefur and PLF Attorney Daniel Himebaugh discuss the latest developments in Sissel v. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. The case is now before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
 

PLF attorneys discuss the need to rein in over-regulation that harms the economy and property rights without benefiting species