Courting Liberty

PLF's Director of Communications Harold Johnson interviews PLF Northwest Center Attorney Ethan Blevins and PLF Client MariLyn Yim about PLF's challenging of Seattle’s new mandate forcing landlords to rent to the first qualified person who applies for a unit. By denying owners the freedom to choose among qualified applicants and to exercise nondiscriminatory discretion about who will live in their units, the “first in time” rule violates state constitutional protections for property rights.

PLF's D.C. Center Executive Director Todd Gaziano hosts a special, post Supreme Court oral argument round table discussion with PLF's Executive Vice President and General Counsel John Groen, PLF's President and CEO Steven Anderson, and PLF client Donna Murr. On March 20, 2017, the historic property rights case of Murr v. State of Wisconsin and St. Croix County was argued at the Supreme Court. The Murrs would like to sell the vacant parcel, to fund repairs to their family cabin which sits on an adjacent parcel that their parents bought several years earlier. But government officials — imposing regulations enacted after both parcels were purchased — have forbidden them from selling or making any productive use of the vacant investment parcel.

Director of Litigation at Pacific Legal Foundation, Jim Burling, interviews General Counsel at PLF, John Groen, about what it takes to present an argument in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Groen's upcoming case is Murr v. Wisconsin and St. Croix County and will be heard on March 20, 2017 in Washington D.C.

Pacific Legal Foundation's Harold Johnson interviews PLF attorney Jonathan Wood and Beth Casoni of the Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association. Casoni is one Wood's several clients in the fishing industry that is challenging the Obama Administrations use of the Antiquities Act to designate vast swaths of ocean as a national monument.

PLF Attorney Jonathan Wood, Executive Director of PLF's DC Center Todd Gaziano and Senior Attorney Tony Francois dive into the Congressional Review Act in this podcast brought to you by the Pacific Legal Foundation. For more information about the Pacific Legal Foundation project, visit www.redtaperollback.com.

PLF's Director of Communications Harold Johnson speaks with PLF Senior Attorney Damien Schiff, Kirk Wilbur of the California Cattlemen's Association and Kathy DeForest, a rancher in Modoc County California, about the California's endangered species listing of the Gray Wolf.

Pacific Legal Foundation's Harold Johnson interviews Managing Attorney for PLF’s Atlantic Center in Florida, Mark Miller, and his client Jim Iwanicki, engineer manager for the Marquette County Road Commission in Marquette County, Michigan. PLF joined with Marquette County officials in appealing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s unjustified veto of local road project, CR-595, that is vital for community safety and environmental health.

PLF Director of Litigation Jim Burling, interviews client Donna Murr, PLF General Counsel John Groen and PLF Attorney Dave Breemer about Murr's case which will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 20, 2017.

President Trump has announced the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. PLF attorneys Todd Gaziano, Mark Miller and Tony Francois discuss the nominee and highlight some of his qualifications for the nation's highest court.

It's school choice week! PLF attorney's Joshua Thompson and Wencong Fa talk about PLF's involvement in school choice through our donor-supported litigation nationwide. School choice embodies the simple proposition that parents know the best school for their children. By injecting choice and competition into the traditional public school monopoly, parents, students, teachers, schools, and taxpayers are better off.

PLF's Harold Johnson, PLF principal attorney Reed Hopper and Director of Litigation Jim Burling discuss PLF's WOTUS case being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. Specifically the question raised is which court get's to hear if the waters of the United States rule is appropriate or not. In the case that the High Court accepted — National Association of Manufacturers v. U.S. Department of Defense — the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals adopted a restrictive approach to judicial relief, allowing only federal courts of appeals to hear WOTUS challenges.

Pacific Legal Foundation's Harold Johnson interviews PLF attorney Christina Martin and Lisa Moore, the President of Save Crystal River, about how the US Fish and Wildlife Service is dragging their feet on down listing Florida's West Indian Manatee. After a population comeback the USFWS advised the manatee be delisted to "threatened" in 2007. The classification has yet to become official.

Director of Litigation at Pacific Legal Foundation, Jim Burling, talks with PLF attorney's Larry Salzman and David Breemer about how PLF will take on property rights in 2017. Salzman also touches on economic liberty issues and Burling gives an update on environmental affairs. All three guests discuss their thoughts on what the PLF fight will look like under a new President.

Director of Litigation at Pacific Legal Foundation, Jim Burling, interviews PLF General counsel John Groen, Principal Attorney Reed Hopper, and PLF's President Steven Anderson about 2016 highlights and what to look forward to in 2017. PLF attorneys and clients have declared victory in several important cases in 2016. Going toe-to-toe against powerful bureaucracies like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, PLF has drawn on the bravery of our clients and the financial muscle of our donors to defend Americans’ fundamental constitutional rights.

PLF's Harold Johnson interviews PLF Staff Attorney Anastasia Boden about a brief that was filed in the Oregon Supreme Court on behalf of her client David Hansen. Hansen, an architectural designer working on getting his architecture license in Oregon, created some marketing drawings that were meant to help a property development company attract retailers to developments. The drawings were not "plans" and couldn't be used for construction. However, Hansen and his partner were fined $10,000 each for purportedly practicing architecture without a license.