Farmers and Private Property Rights | Supreme Court will hear union trespassing case

The U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear a challenge to a California law that allows employee unions to trespass on private property. California law requires agriculture producers to open their property and businesses to union activists, which disrupts their business operations and takes their property without compensation. Early one morning in 2015, hundreds […]
The Founding Fathers of our limited government: Thomas Jefferson and the freedom of speech

By TIMOTHY SNOWBALL This is the fifth in a five-part series dedicated to exploring the lives, ideas, and contributions of the five individuals most directly responsible for the founding of the United States. Without the courageous actions of James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson, America would not be the country that it is today. […]
Property owners move to intervene in navigable waters challenge

San Francisco: Today an Idaho couple filed a motion to intervene in California’s challenge to the Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule. For more than 13 years, Mike and Chantell Sackett have fought the EPA for the right to build a house on their residential lot in Priest Lake, Idaho. That fight took them all […]
BUSINESS | Virtual Event: Get Government Out of the Way So America Can Recover

You’re invited to join Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) and National Review Institute (NRI) for a virtual event. How to Get Government Out of the Way So America Can Rebuild from COVID-19 May 28, 2020 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. EDT, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. PDT RSVP FOR ZOOM LINK The current crisis has spared nobody […]
California bans license plates “OG” and “QUEER”; hit with new lawsuit

A lawsuit filed today challenges the California Department of Motor Vehicles’ arbitrary censorship of speech on personalized license plates. After Chris Ogilvie was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army following four tours overseas, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, he bought a new car and applied for a personalized license plate that read “OGWOOLF.” The plate […]
Bureaucrats can’t rewrite the law just because they don’t like it

Jack LaPant thought that he had properly navigated all the necessary regulations under the federal Clean Water Act when he plowed his northern California farmland in 2011 to grow wheat. Multiple agencies said he did not need a permit; but in 2016, government bureaucrats sued Jack for not obtaining a permit, even though the Clean […]
California’s “woman quota” targeted in new lawsuit | Fighting California’s discriminatory law

A lawsuit filed today challenges California’s first-in-the-nation requirement that publicly traded companies have a certain number of women on their boards of directors. “This law puts equal numbers above equal treatment,” said Anastasia Boden, a senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation. “This law is built on the condescending belief that women aren’t capable of getting […]
The First Amendment protects the emoji house and the ‘Starry Night’ house

By JEREMY TALCOTT A Manhattan Beach duplex with a unique paint job has been mired in controversy. A few months ago, Manhattan Beach resident Kathryn Kidd hired a local artist named Z the Art to paint her house in a bright pink color with a pair of cheeky emoji faces. While Kidd enjoys the house, her neighbors […]