96
Plus, PLF is heading back to the U.S. Supreme Court as co-counsel in a case that should shock the country...
VIEW ONLINE
[link removed]
| SUBSCRIBE HERE
[link removed]
[link removed]
Oral arguments held in a homebuilder’s clash with the California Coastal Commission; a new short film exposes the CCC as one of the nation’s most powerful land-use agencies; and PLF attorneys prepare for a return to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that should shock the country.
[link removed]
PLF returns to CA Supreme Court in showdown over local coastal permits
[link removed]
On Wednesday, PLF attorney Jeremy Talcott delivered oral arguments at the California Supreme Court—on behalf of PLF client and veteran builder Tim Shea—in a high-stakes property rights case against the California Coastal Commission.
The dispute between Tim and the CCC dates back more than 20 years, when Tim purchased eight residential lots in the coastal community of Los Osos with the intention to build and sell a home on each one.
The first four builds went off without a hitch, but in 2017, after receiving approval from San Luis Obispo County to move forward with his plans to build on the remaining lots, the CCC appealed the County’s decision, forcing Tim into years of regulatory purgatory.
Read More
[link removed]
[link removed]
County seizes family home over tax bill that was never owed
[link removed]
It’s official: PLF is heading back to the U.S. Supreme Court as co-counsel in a case that should shock the country. What happened to the Pung family could happen to anyone. They did nothing wrong, but Isabella County, Michigan, seized their home and auctioned it off for a fraction of its worth—because of a $1,600 school tax the family was legally exempt from.
You can read more about the Pungs’ fight at the link below, and you can hear directly from the attorneys litigating the case if you join our online discussion
[link removed]
on Wednesday, December 17.
Read More
[link removed]
[link removed]
The California Coastal Commission: A Story of Power, Extortion, and Ruin
[link removed]
On Tuesday, we released our newest short film telling the story of the California Coastal Commission, an out-of-control state agency that controls over 1.5 million acres of coastal land.
Through personal experience, archival footage, and legal history, the 13-minute film shows how a single bureaucratic agency became judge, jury, and executioner for California homeowners on the coast.
Watch Here
[link removed]
Army Corps reverses course in Idaho property rights dispute
[link removed]
In July 2025, PLF attorneys filed an administrative appeal on behalf of Rebecca and Caleb Linck after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers declared authority over an acre of their Idaho property in direct defiance of well-established Supreme Court precedent. Fortunately, the Lincks can breathe a little easier this week after an Army Corps appeals official ruled that agency staffers wrongly claimed federal control of their property.
“The Supreme Court definitively ruled in Sackett
[link removed]
that the EPA and U.S. Army Corps have limited power to regulate wetlands—not broad authority over any property in sight of a puddle,” said PLF attorney Charles Yates. “This ruling demonstrates that U.S. Army Corps leadership recognizes the need to abide by the Court’s ruling.”
Read More
[link removed]
Homeowner challenges CCC’s power to exact crippling fines
[link removed]
In 2025, the CCC imposed an astronomical $2.4 million in fines on John Levy, alleging that he is blocking access to public areas and ordering him to tear down structures on his Carlsbad property, including a gate that the City had approved years earlier.
Now, PLF attorneys have joined John in a lawsuit challenging the CCC for acting as prosecutor, judge, and beneficiary—in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Americans have a right to due process before being hit with punitive fines. Furthermore, before the government seeks to impose ruinous financial penalties, it must provide substantial procedural safeguards to prevent wrongful deprivations.
Read More
[link removed]
Following PLF’s discrimination suit, Pritzker signs bill ending Illinois’ race-exclusive scholarship
[link removed]
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker recently signed legislation rewriting the state’s scholarship rules—and abruptly ending a decades-old race-exclusive program. The change will moot a federal equal protection challenge we filed on behalf of The American Alliance for Equal Rights in October 2024.
Read More
[link removed]
PLF in the News
[link removed]
The Washington Post
[link removed]
: Even Trump’s EPA can’t get it quite right on this silly wetlands law
National Review
[link removed]
: Congress Should Stop Passing the Buck to the Bureaucracy
National Review
[link removed]
: Speaker Johnson Proves the Necessity of Reviving the Nondelegation Doctrine
Read More
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
Support Our Mission
[link removed]
Support Our Mission
[link removed]
Copyright © 2025 Pacific Legal Foundation, All rights reserved.
Pacific Legal Foundation
555 Capitol Mall, Suite 1290
Sacramento, CA 95814
[link removed]
Unsubscribe
[link removed]
from all PLF emails.
