Ruda v. San Luis Obispo
Californian homebuilders challenge City’s housing exactions
Represented at no cost by Pacific Legal Foundation, Ruda, Knauer, and Zarnegar filed a lawsuit arguing that the City can’t make housing more affordable by making it more expensive to build—and that it can’t fine property owners for problems they didn’t create.
Leslie Daniels v. Town of Palm Beach
Palm Beach homeowner fights back after town declares his private beach is public
Leslie Daniels filed a federal lawsuit challenging Palm Beach's actions as an unconstitutional taking of his property and a violation of his First Amendment right to post signs on his own land.
Flying T Ranch, Inc. v. Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians
Ranching family asks Supreme Court to secure access to court in property dispute
The Blakeys, like all American citizens, have a right to access the courts to resolve property disputes. They filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case. The petition asks the Court to overturn the lower court decision holding that tribal governments have absolute immunity to quiet title actions, thereby barring the Blakeys from resolving their property dispute in court.
Choice Advisors, LLC, and Matthias O’Meara v. Securities Exchange Commission
Securities advisor forced through an unconstitutional administrative proceeding without an independent judge and jury
Municipal-securities advisor sues SEC for allegedly stripping him of jury trial rights and access to an independent court.
Nightingale College v. Tanner
Georgia rules block nursing students from critical clinical training
Nursing students sue Georgia for protectionist regulations restricting them from completing their education.
Nightingale College v. Spangler
Amid a national nursing shortage, Montana’s protectionism blocks clinical training
Nursing student sues Montana for protectionist regulations restricting her from completing her education.
Californians for Equal Rights Foundation et al. v. San Francisco Human Rights Commission et al.
San Francisco taxpayers challenge race-based reparations fund in court
San Francisco taxpayers challenge the city’s race-based reparations ordinance as unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.
BAS, LLC, et al. v. Tommy Land
California brothers challenge Arkansas’ claim that states can take private property without paying
Sovereign immunity is not the silver bullet the State of Arkansas claims. Under decades of legal precedent, the government’s constitutional obligations to citizens qualify as “waivers” of sovereign immunity, meaning citizens do not have to wait for the government to give them permission to sue over a violation of their constitutional rights. These “waivers” include the government's obligation to pay you when they take your property.
Hope Lindstrom v. Hilgers
Nebraska mother fights back against state control of childbirth choices
Nebraska mother files lawsuit to protect her right to birth freedom.