Yesterday, San Francisco residents Richard “Richie” Greenberg and Arthur Ritchie, along with the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, filed a lawsuit aiming to halt a December 2025 City ordinance establishing a reparations fund.

“Acknowledging past injustice does not give the government license to spend public resources on programs that sort people by race and ancestry today,” said PLF attorney Andrew Quinio.

“The Constitution requires the City to address proven harm directly, not through sweeping racial and ancestral classifications. This lawsuit is about ensuring that all Americans are treated as individuals under the law and not forced to subsidize government policies that collectively bind them to history that they did not experience or inflict.”

Imagine the government seizing your family’s $1.5 million investment property over a paperwork mishap, selling it to a third party for less than 2% of its value, and then claiming sovereign immunity when you challenge the seizure in court.

That’s exactly the situation that brothers Gary and Jay Solnit have been battling since 2021. Now, with PLF’s help, they’re asking the Supreme Court to step in and affirm that sovereign immunity does not empower the government—at any level—to ignore its constitutional responsibilities.

In May 2023, PLF client Rom Reddy hired a contractor to repair a hurricane-damaged seawall along his coastal property in South Carolina. Even though the repair work all took place on Rom’s property, inland of the required setback line, the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services (DES) demanded he stop all work. DES asserted that its authority extended above the setback line and that it could regulate and control the entire beach.

Knowing DES didn’t have the authority it claimed—and that another storm could devastate the area without warning—Rom chose to finish the repairs. Now, he’s headed to court to defend his property rights and the right of all homeowners to lawfully protect their property from destructive natural forces.

Mike Pung’s life has been shaped by two driving forces: devotion to family and a refusal to back down from bullies.

Now, while most of his peers are enjoying retirement, Mike’s gearing up for a Supreme Court showdown—defending his family’s honor and fighting to recover their stolen equity. Because to Mike, “Right is right, wrong is wrong.”

When Mike Yoder started flying drones, he wasn’t trying to make a statement. He was trying to solve a problem common among hunters in his area: Game sometimes runs off after being shot, and hunters have a hard time locating it.

Now, Mike’s locked in a constitutional showdown with the State of Michigan over a simple, but controversial, question: Do Americans have the right to use modern tools to gather and share information?

Local governments commit home equity theft when they take and sell a home at auction for unpaid property taxes but do not allow the homeowner to claim the equity in the property beyond what was owed.

A new PLF report analyzes how arbitrary claims processes in some states make it extremely difficult for homeowners to recover their home equity—a practice some describe as “shadow equity theft.”

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