Extinction false alarms?
Author: Daniel Himebaugh Mail Online is running this story, which highlights a new study that found "a third of all mammal species declared extinct in the past few centuries have turned up alive and well." … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2010
PLF on the radio: reclassifying the wood stork
Author: Joshua Thompson PLF principal attorney Reed Hopper will be interviewed on Fox News Radio (Ft. Myers 92.5 FM) at 8:30 a.m. EST on Friday, October 1st. Reed will discuss PLF's lawsuit on behalf of the Florida Home Builders Association which … Continue reading
Washington Supreme Court limits inverse condemnation defenses
Author: Brian T. Hodges Earlier this month, Washington’s Supreme Court issued its long-awaited inverse condemnation decision in Fitzpatrick v. Okanogan County. The case arose from a joint state/local project to protect a state highway from flood damage by diking the … Continue reading
Leave no doubt about where you stand!
Pacific Legal Foundation is pleased to announce its new "NO to Government Mandated Health Care" bumper stickers and t-shirts! PLF is currently litigating against the national health care mandate on behalf of Matt Sissel, a former Iraq war medic and … Continue reading
Fish and Wildlife Service infighting
Author: Damien M. Schiff This week's New York Times Greenwire had an interesting article on Benjamin Tuggle, the Service's Southwest Regional Director. Mr. Tuggle's tenure has been controversial for a number of reasons—fining of humanitarians who leave water bottles for … Continue reading
Farmers dodge a bullet!
Author: Reed Hopper For decades, the Corps of Engineers has exempted from federal regulation so called prior converted croplands. These are wetlands that have been put to agricultural use prior to 1986. In 1993, the Corps issued a formal rulemaking … Continue reading
The largest class action lawsuit in history
Author: Timothy Sandefur …is Dukes v. Wal-Mart, a discrimination case in which the class of plaintiffs is larger than the entire United States military. The class is made up of every woman who’s ever worked at Wal-Mart, give or take … Continue reading