California Coastal Commission schedules hearing on PLF’s petition
We received word this week that the California Coastal Commission has scheduled a hearing next Friday, December 12, to hear our rule rescission petition. That petition, filed on behalf of the Beach...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court takes PLF’s seawall case
Today, the California Supreme Court granted PLF’s petition for review in Lynch v. California Coastal Commission. The supreme court’s grant means that the court of appeal’s decision in favor of the...
View ArticlePresident’s weekly report — December 12, 2014
Property Rights — California Coastal Commission The California Coastal Commission has never been happy with our 1987 victory in Nollan v. California Coastal Commission where the United States Supreme...
View ArticleCalifornia Coastal Commission denies petition
Last Friday, the California Coastal Commission denied our petition, submitted on behalf of the Beach & Bluff Conservancy, to repeal the Commission’s after-the-fact permit fee regulation. The...
View ArticlePresident’s weekly report — March 5, 2015
Environment — Victory for common sense in permitting reviews The California Supreme Court issued this opinion in Berkeley Hillside Preservation v. City of Berkeley Hillside Preservation v. City of...
View ArticleArguing with the California Coastal Commission
Last week I had a hearing in San Diego in one of PLF’s Coastal Land Rights cases: Beach & Bluff Conservancy v. City of Solana Beach & California Coastal Commission. The case challenges certain...
View ArticlePresident’s weekly report — March 13, 2015
Property Rights — Coastal project victory We had another fine preliminary victory against the California Coastal Commission in Beach & Bluff Conservancy v. City of Solana Beach and California...
View ArticlePLF’s Timothy Sandefur and Jennifer Thompson on property rights in California
I’m guest-hosting on KFMB AM 760 in San Diego all week between 10 and noon, and this morning I talked with PLF staff attorney Jennifer Thompson about our litigation in defense of property rights in...
View ArticleCan the Coastal Commission attach a dormant easement as a condition to a permit?
Today, PLF filed an amicus brief in the California Court of Appeal defending the property rights of La Jolla coastal landowners Ure and Dianne Kretowicz. The Kretowiczs purchased their blufftop home...
View ArticlePresident’s weekly report — June 26, 2015
The physical invasion of the raisin snatchers — a property rights victory at the Supreme Court In a week marked by several major Supreme Court decisions that were quite disappointing to advocates of...
View ArticlePLF comments again on Marin County coastal plan
For several years now, PLF attorneys have been following Marin County’s efforts to amend its Local Coastal Program. In the past, we have submitted comment letters both to the Coastal Commission and the...
View ArticleAdverse decision in sea otter case
Late Friday afternoon, the district court issued an adverse decision in PLF’s challenge to the termination of the sea otter management zone in Southern California. This zone was required under a...
View ArticlePresident’s weekly report — October 2, 2015
Endangered species — Utah prairie dog Oral argument was held this week in People for Ethical Treatment of Property Owners v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service, the case where we are challenging...
View ArticleA year of victories for liberty
This weeks Courting Liberty podcast provides a summary of major PLF cases in 2015 for economic liberty, free speech, and property rights. It was certainly a year to remember for PLF, with great...
View ArticlePLF’s Director of Litigation recaps big PLF victories of 2015
PLF Director of Litigation James Burling appeared on the Andy Caldwell show to discuss noteworthy and landmark legal victories across the United States for Pacific Legal Foundation in 2015, including...
View ArticleCoastal Commission radio discussion
Tune in Monday morning at 9 am for San Francisco KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny. I’ll be on the program to discuss current controversies surrounding the California Coastal Commission, including the...
View ArticleControversy over the Coastal Commission’s executive director
Tomorrow, the California Coastal Commission will consider whether to dismiss Charles Lester as the agency’s executive director. Not surprisingly, the environmental community has come out strongly in...
View ArticlePresident’s weekly report — March 4, 2016
Hawkes: 16 – 0 We received sixteen briefs in support of our client, the Hawkes Company, and none in support of the government in Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes. From 29 states to farmers and think...
View ArticleBig changes within the California Coastal Commission on Courting Liberty
In this week’s episode of Courting Liberty, PLF Director of Communications Harold Johnson speaks with PLF Attorney Damien Schiff about the California Coastal Commission’s board vote to dismiss...
View ArticleWhat do the Army Corps of Engineers and the Coastal Commission have in common?
To begin with, they often give property owners a very hard time. Last week, my colleague Reed Hopper argued for one of those property owners in the United States Supreme Court. The case, United...
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