Top ten PLF moments of 2023

Since 1973, the staff at Pacific Legal Foundation has had the privilege of changing lives: We’ve helped our clients challenge unjust government actions in the court of law and the court of public opinion. It’s a fight made possible by our supporters—those who give financially and those who follow and share our work. Thank you for making the following moments (and so many more) possible this year, the year PLF turned 50:
 

1. Wai Wah Chin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, told the audience at PLF’s 50th anniversary gala that her parents came to America because “the land of their birth crushed liberty.” Now Wai Wah considers herself “privileged to join this fight, the fight to save liberty,” she said. “There is no greater privilege than to fight for a cause that matters.”
2. Wil Wilkins, a Montana blacksmith, sat in the Supreme Court and watched his PLF attorney argue the property rights case bearing his name, Wilkins v. United States. Wil won the case—helping property owners across the country challenge the government in similar title claims.
3. Geraldine Tyler, a Minneapolis grandmother, won a unanimous victory at the Supreme Court in a PLF case that toppled local governments’ insidious home equity theft schemes around the country. During oral arguments, Justice Neil Gorsuch read a line aloud from PLF’s brief: “Tyler was not a vassal owing fealty to her lord but a modern-day fee simple owner of real property.”

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