North Carolina bureaucrats are about to learn a lesson in the importance of property rights

When is losing the entire value of your property, due to government regulation, not an “undue hardship”? According to the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission, the answer is whenever your home is on the coast.

Michael and Cathy Zito found this out the hard way after their Nags Head beach house burned to the ground. Erin Wilcox explains in print and on video how the Zitos are fighting back.

Harvard’s inconsistent position on discrimination ignores the full meaning of equality before the law

Later this month, Harvard University will ask the Supreme Court to refrain from reviewing its admissions policy that discriminates against Asian-American students.

Wen Fa writes that Harvard’s full-throated defense of the policy reveals a wildly inconsistent position of condemning discrimination outside its walls while condoning it within.

Gov. Cuomo’s unequal capacity limits silence New York theaters, comedy clubs

Nearly a year into Gov. Andrew Cuomo's shutdown orders, the doors to actress and theater manager's Catherine Russell's theater remained shuttered. But while Catherine's theater couldn't open, similar businesses began to reopen under varying capacity restrictions. Small theaters could finally reopen in April 2021, but only at 33% capacity—far less than the 50% permitted by other businesses and churches.

Also, Catherine’s own theater space is often rented to churches, meaning her theater can accommodate a Sunday morning church service at 50% capacity, with no limit on the number of churchgoers, while a play performed just hours later—in the same theater—must limit attendance to 33% and no more than 100 people.

The government cannot treat similar businesses differently without good reason. So this week, Catherine and a coalition of theater and comedy club owners filed a federal lawsuit to restore the rule of law and equal treatment.

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