Eric Shear

Drive east of of Portland, Oregon, on Highway 84 for a few hours and most of the trip you’ll be alongside the Columbia River, where some centuries ago, steely men named Lewis and Clark risked life and livelihood to paddle into uncharted territory.

Ken Klemm is an American rancher who can talk proper land management techniques just as easily as Enlightenment theory and the importance of individual rights.

In 1994, Jack LaPant moved his wife and two young children from the San Francisco Bay Area to the country to pursue the independence of running his own farm.

It has been six years since a crowd of activist United Farm Workers stormed Cedar Point farms, disrupting more than 500 employees hard at work preparing strawberry plants to ship throughout the country. It has been five years since Mike Fahner, owner of Cedar Point Nursery, launched a lawsuit with PLF against California for giving special interest groups permission to invade farms. And it’s been six months since the Supreme Court agreed to hear Mike’s case, with the potential to protect the property rights of owners everywhere. Why is Mike so willing to swan-dive into a long, laborious fight that would put him under the scrutiny of national media, the public, and the most important judges in the country? Well, this is not Mike’s first fight with the government. Mike’s story did not begin in those early-morning hours in 2015 or even with the creation of Cedar Point Nursery 20 years ago. It began with the birth of overreaching environmental regulations and the family farm he was forced to abandon.

“We're just following the science.” That simple and seemingly unobjectionable statement has been used over the past year to justify every policy, regulation, and law related to COVID-19, no matter their scope or the length they’re in place.

What are we really fighting? PLF brings the fight to government across several battlegrounds. We fight for your right to use your property however you see fit; to earn a living in whatever vocation calls you; to speak or display what’s on your mind; and to enjoy equal protection before the law, regardless of your gender or race. All without fear that you’ll be made an example of by the State. These battlegrounds bring us into disputes with many different arms of government. Consider just four of PLF’s roughly 100 active lawsuits, where we are suing: The California Coastal Commission (CCC), The Fairfax County School Board, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and The U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated when the Great Depression was in full swing. Many Americans felt as if the country was months—if not days—away from breaking under the weight.

In 1917, Vladimir Lenin—the Russian revolutionary who led an overthrow of the Russian government—was trying to hold his country together.

Woodrow Wilson spent most of his life in academia penning books about public administration.

On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in the case of Loving v. Virginia, which ruled unanimously that state laws prohibiting interracial marriage violated the promise of equal protection before the law.

The email came on Thanksgiving Day 2018, of all times.

Our clients never asked the elites to come save them, but the elites came anyway. From coast to coast, minorities’ unwelcome champions have been working hard to bake racial discrimination back into the law, ironically, in the name of equality.