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Dec 10, 2024 | 
swordandscales.org | Nicole W.C. Yeatman |James Burling |Joseph Kast |Phillip Bader
“Is there a reason none of your email addresses got the letter I sent yesterday?” Jessica Pilling calmly asked the members of the Healdsburg Planning Commission as she stood in front of them at the podium. It was a Tuesday evening in February 2024. All the Pillings had come to the planning meeting: Jessica, her husband Chris, and their three young children. (“We didn’t have anyone to watch the kids,” Jessica remembers.) The kids played at the back of the room.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James Burling |Mark Pulliam |Juliana Geran Pilon |John O. McGinnis
Deregulation would surely help, but zoning laws aren't the villain. Classical liberals properly regard property rights as an indispensable pillar of a free society. James Burling has been litigating property rights for over 40 years at the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a public interest law firm headquartered in California that pioneered the defense of property owners against government interference.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
msn.com | James Burling
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
foxnews.com | James Burling
Video NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Vice President Kamala Harris just released a proposal to solve our nation’s housing crisis that is completely unrealistic. Former President Donald Trump is on record of opposing zoning reforms that would open our suburbs to more housing.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
pacificlegal.org | James Burling
“Where once government was closely constrained to increase the freedom of individuals, now property ownership is closely constrained to increase the power of government. Where once government was a necessary evil because it protected private property, now private property is a necessary evil because it funds government programs.”[1]San Remo Hotel L.P. v. City and County of San Francisco (Brown, J., dissenting).
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
pacificlegal.org | James Burling
A few miles from Williamsburg, Virginia, there is a wonderful museum dedicated to the Jamestown Colony. Along the banks of the James River, the museum boasts a re-creation of the stockades, living and work quarters, a few early colony ships, and all those things that make up a colony of settlers in a brand New World. What you don’t see are the graves of the hundreds of colonists who died of starvation in the early years. Nor an exhibit dedicated to the sport of bowling.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
pacificlegal.org | James Burling
One of the biggest cases of the Supreme Court’s October term involves a fishing boat, in which the owner has thrown out a line to the court hoping to snag the Chevron Doctrine. To regulate the fishing industry, the federal government demands that fishing boats allow federal “observers” on board to watch how and which fish are caught. Boat owners are forced to pay the salaries of the observers, up to $700 per day, a significant bite out of a boat’s profits.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
themessenger.com | James Burling
One of the biggest cases of the Supreme Court’s October term involves a fishing boat, in which the owner has thrown out a line to the court hoping to snag the Chevron Doctrine. To regulate the fishing industry, the federal government demands that fishing boats allow federal “observers” on board to watch how and which fish are caught. Boat owners are forced to pay the salaries of the observers, up to $700 per day, a significant bite out of a boat’s profits.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
pacificlegal.org | James Burling
From a single word in the 1977 Amendments to the Clean Water Act, the federal government built a mighty regulatory empire over millions of acres of private property. Last Thursday, thanks to Mike and Chantell Sackett, their attorneys at Pacific Legal Foundation, and nine Justices at the Supreme Court, the borders of that empire receded. Once again, the government is confined to its constitutional and statutory borders.
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Mar 14, 2023 | 
pacificlegal.org | James Burling
Not every problem has a solution, but that doesn’t seem to stop the government from attempting to supply one—even if the solution will make things worse. And even if the government doesn’t have the authority to solve a particular problem. Recognizing the history of governments around the world to solve problems by controlling people’s lives, the drafters of our Constitution put strict limits on what the federal government could do.
