Occupational licensing and corruption
Author: Timothy Sandefur Reason's Katherine Mangu-Ward makes some important observations about taxicab licensing in Wasihngton, D.C. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Maryland’s funeral home cartel
Author: Timothy Sandefur This week, PLF's Economic Liberty Project filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a case coming out of Maryland, where state law forbids corporations from owning funeral homes. Only individuals can own funeral homes–and only … Continue reading
Real failure: Obama administration refuses to admit that the ESA is hurting the Central Valley
Author: Brandon Middleton The Obama administration has previously had trouble admitting that the Endangered Species act has prevented water from flowing to the Central Valley. The last week has seen this disturbing trend continue. The Interior Department's Sept. 17 "Reality … Continue reading
The New York Times on corporate personhood
Author: Timothy Sandefur Yesterday's New York Times featured an editorial calling on courts to abolish the principle of “corporate personhood.” This is the legal principle that holds that corporations should be treated like “persons” under the Fourteenth Amendment and in other … Continue reading
My interview at the Rockford College Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
Author: Timothy Sandefur The Rockford College Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has posted the video of my interview with philosopher Stephen Hicks. One embarrassing error: in my interview, I mentioned that the poet Yeats referred to the 1930s as a … Continue reading
How Missouri abuses eminent domain
Author: Timothy Sandefur The Show-Me Institute has published my policy report, Gradual And Silent Encroachments: How The Missouri Supreme Court Expanded the Power of Eminent Domain. This article describes the case of dentist Homer Tourkakis, whose property was seized by the city … Continue reading
Upcoming appearances
Author: Timothy Sandefur I'll be speaking tomorrow at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, where my friend Stephen Hicks runs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Then on Thursday, I'll be speaking to the Federalist Society at the University of Wisconsin … Continue reading