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2024 | Summer Issue

Portraits

We're shaped by our experiences. Where we end up ultimately is a matter of where we're from.

This issue is dedicated to the stories of our donors, what made them who they are, and how they, too, came to know PLF. You’ll see their treks and the distinctive lives they’ve created. Above all, you’ll get an inside look at the people we too rarely discuss in these pages—the people whose investment allows us to protect the greatest good: individual liberty.

– Steven D. Anderson, President & CEO, Pacific Legal Foundation

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Steve Hanleigh on Family and the American Dream

Nicole W.C. Yeatman

Steve Hanleigh, now in his late seventies, has worked in California real estate for over fifty years. He lives in Monterey, California, home of Cannery Row (which John Steinbeck called “a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream”), the legendary 1967 music festival (where Janis Joplin gave her career-making performance), the historic […]

Bob Spaulding on the Lessons of Economics

Nicole W.C. Yeatman

Bob Spaulding was 42 years old and teaching economics at San Diego State University when he decided to spend a summer bicycling across the country. It took 18 days; he averaged 100 miles per day. BOB: It was mainly an endurance thing. The hardest part of the trip was going from Mesquite, Nevada, through St. George […]

Jim Krasno on the Bizarre World of an Entrepreneurial Pathologist

Nicole W.C. Yeatman

Early in Dr. Jim Krasno’s autobiographical book, I’d Rather Do an Autopsy, there’s a scene where he arrives at a prison for the first time. Jim was a pathologist for over forty years in the Bay Area. Pathology is an investigative form of medicine: You’re using the human body to unlock secrets about death and disease. Jim’s […]

Jay Dauphinais on Being a Landlord to Small Businesses

Nicole W.C. Yeatman

Jay Dauphinais owns commercial industrial centers in the Bay Area, leasing space to businesses. Most of his tenants aren’t big firms. They’re lean, service-oriented companies in their earliest days, when they’re still figuring their business out. JAY: I call it incubator space. It’s entry-level commercial. They’re home-based businesses that finally go out and lease something because […]
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Sword&Scales is a quarterly magazine with in-depth stories about liberty, equality, and justice. Published by Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm with a winning record at the Supreme Court, Sword&Scales features narratives from history, courtroom showdowns, and the real experiences of people fighting for their rights.

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