Today, our firm filed comments with the FDA in response to the agency’s request for input regarding its regulation of the term “healthy” in the labeling of food. In recent years, FDA’s current regulatory scheme has led to absurd results, such as where avocados and almonds were not considered healthy, while Poptarts and Frosted Flakes were. Now FDA purports to replace its bad regulations
Hawaii v. Trump
Today, our firm filed its fourth brief in support of President Trump’s effort to impose immigration controls. This brief supported President Trump’s second Executive Order issued on March 6, 2017 — to secure our borders against entry by those coming from select countries where their background cannot be checked.
Our first two briefs were filed in the Washington State challenge, in the
National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra
Today, we filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in support of a petition to protect the Crisis Pregnancy Centers in California. The California Reproductive FACT Act requires these pro-life centers to disseminate to those who seek its services, information explaining the easy availability of taxpayer subsidized abortion. Our brief explains that this state law violates the Declaration
Article: Herbert W. Titus on “Judge Posner’s Emporium”
Today Herb Titus wrote a powerful critique of 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner’s astonishing concurring opinion in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College, issued April 4, 2017. That case determined that discrimination based on “sex” really means “sexual orientation” — irrespective of what Congress meant when it enacted Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
United States v. Ackerman
Today, we filed an amicus brief in support of a motion to suppress evidence in a criminal case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The case is on remand from an appeal to the Tenth Circuit which resulted in a decision written by Judge (now Justice) Neil Gorsuch. Gorsuch had pointed out that the search of an email with its attachments could constitute a violation of the email
Patriotic Veterans v. Curtis Hill, Attorney General of Indiana
Today we co-counseled the filing of a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Patriotic Veterans, a nonprofit organization based in Illinois. This Petition brings to the High Court a First Amendment challenge to an Indiana law barring most nonprofit organizations from using automated dialing equipment to conduct issue advocacy and grassroots lobbying.
IRAP v. Trump
Today, our firm filed its third brief in support of President Trump’s effort to impose immigration controls. Our brief supported President Trump’s effort to secure our borders against entry by those coming from select countries where their background cannot be checked. This brief was filed in the Fourth Circuit — with respect to the second Trump Executive Order issued on March
Collins v. Commonwealth of Virginia
Today we filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a deeply flawed decision of the Virginia Supreme Court involving the Fourth Amendment. The cased involved different ways that courts evaluate the constitutionality of searches and seizures. The search in this case was of a motorcycle under a tarp located what is known as the “curtilage” of a home, or the area
Important Executive Orders
Interesting Government Documents
| Headquarters, U.S. Army “Internment and Resettlement Operations (FM 3-39.40)” February 2010 Draw your own conclusions about this document. |
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| Joint Chiefs of Staff, Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba (TS) March 13 1962 False Flag plan authored by General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (1960-1962) |
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| CIA Inspector General Lyman B. Kirkpatrick’s Report on the Bay of Pigs Invasion February 16 1962 Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Jr. (1916-1995) was a courageous public servant who, as the Inspector General of the CIA, was tasked with reviewing how the April 1961 Bay of Pigs disaster occurred. Rather than provide a report which covered mistakes made by the Agency’s leadership, he issued a truthful report about the CIA blunders, sacrificing his career in the process. It was my honor to take every course Professor Kirkpatrick offered during my four years at Brown University. |
Hamilton v. Pallozzi
Today, we filed our second amicus brief in this case, in support of a petition for rehearing en banc in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. We urged the Fourth Circuit to rehear the case, because the panel decision ignored the requirements of the U.S. Constitution’s Full Faith and Credit clause. The issue involved a Maryland resident’s right to purchase and
Article: Social Conservatives Applaud SCOTUS Vacating Fourth Circuit Decision
Bill Olson was quoted in this article about the Supreme Court’s Order issued Monday vacating the Fourth Circuit’s decision in G.G. v. Gloucester County and remanding the case to the Fourth Circuit.
Article: LifeSiteNews article regarding potential future Justice Gorsuch
Bill Olson was quoted in this article about how Judge Gorsuch might rule when on the High Court.
Welch v. Brown
Today, we filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court in support of a petition for writ of certiorari, asking the Court to review a California ban on mental health providers pro-hetrosexual therapies to minors. Interestingly, the California law, SB 1172, does not ban pro-homosexual therapies. We reject the notion that the Free Exercise Clause was written to give special rights to religious people.
Gloucester County v GG — Update — SCOTUS asks parties how to proceed after Trump withdraws transgender guidance
Today,the U.S. Supreme Court Clerk has asked the parties to file by March 1 for letters explaining their views on how the Gloucester County v. GG case should proceed in view of the Trump Administration change of policy.
We filed two briefs in the Gloucester v. GG case:
1. Amicus
Washington v. Trump
Today we filed a brief in support of rehearing by the Ninth Circuit en banc, of the Ninth Circuit’s motions panel denial of the Trump Administration’s motion for a stay of the Temporary Restraining Order issued by a federal district judge in Washington State enjoining operation of the President’s Executive Order on immigration and refugees.
We previously filed another brief in this
Article: Overstepping Authority: 9th Circuit Judges Substitute Their Policy Preferences for That of Trump’s
Today, CNSNews ran our article discussing yesterday’s decision of the Motions Panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denying the Trump Administration’s Motion for Stay of the Temporary Restraining Order.
Article: Here are the right-wing groups supporting Donald Trump’s Muslim ban in court
This Yahoo News article mentions our amicus brief filed in the Ninth Circuit supporting the Trump Immigration Executive Order.
State of Washington v. Donald J. Trump
Today we filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit in support of a motion to stay a Temporary Restraining Order issued by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, which prohibited enforcement of several sections of President Trump’s recent Executive Order temporarily suspending entry of certain immigrants and refugees into the United States.
Valpak Comments on the U.S. Postal Service FY 2016 Annual Compliance Report
Today we filed comments on behalf of Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, Inc. and Valpak Franchise Association with the Postal Regulatory Commission (“PRC”). These comments related to the Postal Service’s Annual Compliance Report, filed each year. After considering those comments, the PRC issues its Annual Compliance Determination, which is expected by the end of March 2017.
These
Article on CNS News: ‘Justice’ Neil Gorsuch? Some Cause for Concern
Today, CNS News republished our article with Larry Pratt on Judge Neil Gorsuch.
Article in American Thinker: Judge Neil Gorsuch: Some Cause for Concern
Today the American Thinker published an article by Bill Olson and Larry Pratt, Executive Director Emeritus of Gun Owners of America, evaluating Judge Neil Gorsuch as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Xavier Becerra
Today we filed a brief for the Free Speech Coalition and a large number of nonprofit orgainzations opposing efforts by the Attorney General of California to compel the disclosure by nonprofit organizations soliciting funds in that state of the names of their largest donors.
The issue in the case involves conditioning the ability to fundraise in California on disclosing confidential information to
Citizens United v. Schneiderman
Today we filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit opposing efforts by the Attorney General of New York from implementing new procedures requiring every nonprofit organization which solicits funds in that state to provide him with the names, addresses, and donation amounts of the organization’s largest donors. Although the Attorney General of New York insists
Gloucester County School Board v. G.G.
Today, our firm filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a school board whose policy is that students should use the bathroom associated with their fixed biological sex, rather than the one that corresponds to their subjective “gender identity.”
The Obama Administration’s Department of Education had joined the lawsuit in support of a troubled young woman who thinks that