PLF will be presenting oral argument in Murr v. State of Wisconsin in two days at the U.S. Supreme Court  -----     our 11th case at the High Court. Watch our news conference live on PLF's Facebook page on Monday at approximately 
8:20 A.M. (PDT)

As oral argument in Murr v. State of Wisconsin draws closer, media coverage is ramping up. The Washington Times featured an op-ed by PLF Senior Attorney Dave Breemer on the case, and Pioneer Press published an op-ed by PLF client Mike Murr on the upcoming argument. This week's episode of Courting Liberty also featured a conversation between PLF's Vice President of Litigation James Burling and PLF's Executive Vice President and General Counsel John Groen, who will be presenting the oral argument on March 20.


Mike Murr also spoke about what it was like finding out that his family's property rights case against St. Croix County and the State of Wisconsin would be heard in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in the video below.


                                                  
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PLF's upcoming Supreme Court oral argument in Murr v. State of Wisconsin was previewed on Behind the Headlines with Mark Hyman this week. Represented by PLF, the Murr family has fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop bureaucrats from robbing them of a family legacy -----      a vacant parcel along the St. Croix River in Wisconsin that their late parents purchased in the early 1960s as a family investment.



                                                  
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Dan and Maria Levin
 PLF Clients
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected San Francisco's attempt to scuttle a major PLF court victory for the city's landlords. At issue was PLF's federal district court victory in 2014 over the city's since-repealed Tenant Relocation Ordinance, a confiscatory law that barred landlords from removing their units from the rental market unless they paid huge sums to their tenants. "The Ninth Circuit was correct not to let the city draw it into a pointless decision on a law that is long gone," said PLF Senior Attorney Dave Breemer. "Moreover, everyone who values property rights should be glad that Judge Breyer's decision, with its powerful analysis and application of constitutional protections, was left undisturbed."
                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                          

Anastasia Boden
Attorney
PLF Attorney Anastasia Boden authored an op-ed for The Oregonian on PLF client David Hansen, who was fined $30,000 for making marketing drawings without an architect's license. "David's story is just one example in a trend of licensing bodies interpreting their authority broadly to prevent people from competing with licensees," writes Boden. "Both ends of the political spectrum are increasingly recognizing that occupational licensing has simply run amok. Advocates justify licensing laws in terms of public health and safety. But time and time again, studies have shown that in reality, these laws are often nothing more than entrenched business interests erecting barriers to competition."
                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                         
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PLF has announced the winners of its 2016-17 Annual Law Student Writing Competition sponsored by PLF's Program for Judicial Awareness. In first place came Georgetown University Law Center student Joel S. Nolette, followed by Michael J. McConnell, a second year law student at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, with Yale Law School student John Ehrett claiming third place in the competition.