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6/28/2010 SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS VINDICATED - AGAIN! The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the right to keep and bear arms in the context of state and local laws and ordinances - see inside for description of today's McDonald decision... Full Text

5/21/2010 EPA GLOBAL WARMING RULES DIVIDE STATES, SPUR LEGAL CHALLENGES As printed in The Washington Times, SLF's Shannon Goessling outlines the EPA's regulatory push on global warming/greenhouse gas emissions and points to the legal about-face in states like New York - see inside - Full Text

5/17/2010 JUVENILE VIOLENT CRIMES VICTIMS LEFT WANTING BY SUPREME COURT DECISION The Supreme Court of the United States today issued decisions in the Florida appeals of the juvenile life without parole cases, Graham v. State of Florida and Sullivan v. State of Florida, affirming the consitutionality of the sentence for homicide cases, but declaring unconstitutional the same penalty for other heinous crimes...see inside - Full Text

5/13/2010 SLF FILES FEDERAL LAWSUIT AGAINST CITY OF DESTIN, FL - BEACHFRONT PROPERTY RIGHTS AT STAKE Representing a group of beachfront property owners, SLF files a federal court challenge against the City of Destin seeking declaratory and injunctive relief for violations of equal protection and due process rights. At issue is whether the government owes a duty to protect property rights - the Constitution says it does - see inside - Full Text

3/26/2010 EPA GLOBAL WARMING FINDINGS UNRAVELING - As appeared in the March 26, 2010 issue of the Atlanta Business Chronicle, SLF's Shannon Goessling discusses the scientific errors and potential fraud underlying the EPA's current global warming regulatory push - see inside - Full Text

3/8/2010 SLF FILES PETITION TO STAY WITH EPA: COULD STOP GLOBAL WARMING ENDANGERMENT FINDING The first of its kind in the now-multi-party challenge against the EPA's carbon dioxide Endangerment Finding, SLF files a Petition to Stay, which could stop the Finding and the regulations that threaten the U.S. economy and are based on flawed science - see inside for new details - Full Text

2/11/2010 UNSETTLED SCIENCE LEADS TO LEGAL ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING - Investor's Business Daily - SLF's Shannon Goessling exposes the proposed global warming regime by the EPA and Obama administration - who's behind it, and why legal action is necessary - SLF represents more than a dozen U.S. Representatives and nearly 20 professional associations and companies - see more inside - Full Text

2/10/2010 GLOBAL WARMING: SLF FILES COURT ACTION AGAINST EPA - Washington Examiner - Representing 13 Congressmen and 17 professional associations and companies representing thousands of employees, SLF files a Petition for Judicial Review with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia - see inside for Washington Examiner editorial - Full Text

12/23/2009 SLF BRINGS INITIAL LEGAL ACTION WITH EPA: GLOBAL WARMING "ENDANGERMENT?" Representing 9 Congressmen from various states, SLF files Petition for Reconsideration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), challenging the Endangerment Finding on carbon dioxide issued this month - see inside for details - Full Text

9/22/2009 U.S. SUPREME COURT APPEAL - VICTIMS' RIGHTS IN VIOLENT JUVENILE CASES - The question is whether life without parole is appropriate and constitutional for violent CONVICTED juvenile offenders . . . SLF, representing 34 victims' rights groups across the nation, says yes . . . see inside for more - Full Text

9/14/2009 CENSUS BUREAU SEVERS TIES WITH ACORN - BUT WATCH OUT FOR OTHER GROUPS SLF applauds Census Bureau Director Robert Groves' response to national pressure to sever ties with ACORN, but warns that the same diligence must be used with remaining 300 Census 'partner' groups - see inside Full Text

9/13/2009 ACORN PARADE OF LEGAL HORRIBLES CONTINUES, SLF CALLS ON CENSUS TO DISENGAGE After a recent string of allegations and long track record of on-point legal violations, ACORN should be jettisoned from Census 2010 planning - see what SLF, which won the U.S. Supreme Court win in 1999 protecting the integrity of the Census, is saying about ACORN... Full Text

8/26/2009 TRUTH IN ACCOUNTING: STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SHOULD DISCLOSE REAL BURDENS Pension accounting and financial reporting are front and center in the current federal and state government financial crisis - SLF and Institute for Truth in Accounting call on the Government Accounting Standards Board to require state and local governments to disclose real costs and burdens ultimately shouldered by taxpayers - see inside for more - Full Text

8/21/2009 PROTECTING PROPERTY RIGHTS AT THE BEACH: Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court Now in jeopardy across the nation's seaboards, private property rights go to the beach . . . SLF files a friend of the court brief on behalf of beach front property owners in defense of constitutional property rights - Full Text

6/22/2009 U.S. SUPREME COURT - SECT. V OF VOTING RIGHTS ACT "RAISES SERIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL CONCERNS" SLF's friend of the court brief cited three times by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas - see how U.S. Supreme Court decides Voting Rights Act case in one of the most important decisions this year - Full Text

6/1/2009 SUPREME COURT NOMINEE SONIA SOTOMAYOR: RE-WRITING LAW TO CREATE OUTCOME SHE DESIRES In Sunday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution, SLF's Executive Director Shannon Goessling answers the newspaper's tough question with the conclusion, "The Supreme Court needs a judge, not a policymaker." See inside for analysis - Full Text

1/23/2009 BOLD LEGAL REFORMS IN GEORGIA: BLUEPRINT FOR PROTECTING JOBS IN TODAY'S ECONOMY As appeared in Atlanta Business Chronicle, SLF's Shannon Goessling praises bold lawsuit reforms by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as an important way to protect jobs and enhance innovation when the nation needs it most...see inside for more... Full Text

1/6/2009 PROTECTING THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO HOLD GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE: Gun Rights and the Public Interest SLF files friend of the court brief on behalf of Second Amendment public interest advocacy organization, arguing that cases brought for public benefit - generally, constitutional cases - should not be disqualified from seeking attorney's fees...see more inside - Full Text

12/19/2008 HAWAII LAND TRUST BELONGS TO ALL HAWAIIANS, NOT JUST ONE RACIAL GROUP: APPEAL TO U.S. SUPREME COURT SLF and the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii file a friend of the court brief the U.S. Supreme Court seeking relief from the decades-long practice by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs of distributing millions of public dollars to a single ethnic group - at the expense of the general public - see more inside - Full Text

9/3/2008 DRIVER'S LICENSE EXAMS IN ENGLISH: ALABAMA CONSTITUTION MANDATES IT! - NEW LAWSUIT CHALLENGES STATE TO RETURN TO CONSTITUTIONAL POLICY On behalf of five Alabama residents, including state Sen. Scott Beason, SLF has filed a new constitutional lawsuit challenging the State of Alabama to stop giving driver's license examinations in multiple languages, a policy that violates a state constitutional amendment approved 9-1 by Alabama voters - see inside for more on this important case - Full Text

6/26/2008 SECOND AMENDMENT VINDICATED - U.S. SUPREME COURT HOLDS FAST TO TRADITIONAL MEANING District of Columbia v. Heller - "the most significant Second Amendment case in the nation's history" - affirms the constitutional right to self-defense by means of a handgun - which is particularly important to our clients, representing women, the elderly and the disabled - see inside for more on this landmark Supreme Court decision - Full Text