PLF's Board of Trustees has named Steven Anderson, a leading national advocate for property rights and prominent executive in the freedom-based legal movement, as PLF's new President and CEO. He will take up the post on September 1.


"We are thrilled to have a dynamic and demonstrated leader like Steven Anderson join the PLF team at such a pivotal time in the organization's history," said Greg M. Evans, Chair of PLF's Board of Trustees. "Steven has an optimistic vision and comprehensive strategy to take PLF to even greater levels of growth and prominence in the national arena. With his thoughtfulness and diverse leadership skills as a senior manager, the future of PLF is incredibly bright."

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PLF's D.C. Center Executive Director Todd Gaziano hosts a special conversation with PLF's new incoming President and CEO, Steven Anderson. PLF's General Counsel and Interim President John Groen also joins in on the discussion, as Steven is introduced and provides his detailed vision for the future of Pacific Legal Foundation.


                                             
                                                            
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PLF Law Clerk Raymond Navaro authored a blog post this week on an attempt at ESA reform. "Pacific Legal Foundation has long been concerned with the dangers posed to property owners by the Endangered Species Act" writes Navaro. "PLF's environmental litigation, including its ESA work, ensures that laws like the Endangered Species Act do not violate Americans' property rights and other liberties. Thankfully, the movement for reform in environmental law is not exclusive to the nation's courts."




PLF Staff Attorney Anastasia Boden provided insight into PLF's filing of this brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear PLF's case on behalf of Leslie Young. "Leslie Young is an advertising broker" writes Boden. "Nebraska law calls Leslie's business the practice of 'real estate brokerage,' and requires a license for it. PLF challenged the law in federal court, alleging that the Nebraska licensing law violates her right to free speech and her right to earn a living free of arbitrary government interference. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law on the basis that the law regulated the conduct of real estate brokerage, not speech. But as we argue in our brief, laws that regulate communications based on the topic discussed are restrictions on speech, subject to strict First Amendment scrutiny."
                                             
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PLF's D.C. Center Executive Director Todd Gaziano appeared on The Andy Caldwell Show to discuss PLF's newly named President and CEO, PLF's upcoming Annual Dinner, a case against former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, and the Supreme Court OKs warrant-less breathalyzer tests in drunk driving arrests.