Author: Timothy Sandefur The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently asked the parties to that state’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Individual Mandate to write some extra briefs about whether the Individual Mandate is a tax and if so … Continue reading
Author: Timothy Sandefur The federal government has asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss the Thomas More Law Ctr. v. Obama case as moot, because one of the plaintiffs in that case has obtained health insurance. ACA Litigation … Continue reading
Author: Damien M. Schiff Columnist Michael Fitzgerald of The Stockton Record ran this vituperation yesterday excoriating the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for allowing millions of Sacramento splittail to be destroyed by the water pumps in the south Delta. Setting … Continue reading
Author: Timothy Sandefur How land-use restrictions are hurting the Alabamans who lost their homes in the recent tornadoes. … Continue reading
Author: Timothy Sandefur Tax Increment Financing, or TIF, is the trick that bureaucrats use to finance massive redevelopment projects that include condemning small businesses and homes and giving the land to politically well-connected private developers. Randall O'Toole, an expert on … Continue reading
Author: Timothy Sandefur Today, Pacific Legal Foundation, along with six other pro-freedom groups, filed this brief in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals opposing the constitutionality of the Individual Mandate. (It’s the third friend of the court brief we’ve filed … Continue reading
Author: Joshua Thompson I have been away from the office, and haven't had a chance to post Andrew Coulson's latest reply to some minor critiques I leveled against his Philadelphia Inquirer piece. Here is my initial critique, Mr. Coulson's response, … Continue reading