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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

3/5/2009 SLF WELCOMES NEW LEGAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER: RAY SMITH OF ATLANTA Ray S. Smith III joins SLF's Legal Advisory Board - "stalwart advocate and keen insights" - see more inside - Full Text

2/18/2009 CENSUS 2010 - PRESIDENT OBAMA SET TO VIOLATE U.S. CONSTITUTION SLF won the U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1999 challenging the Clinton plan to use statistical manipulation of the Census for political gain. Now President Obama seems set to repeat the unconstitutional act - see inside for The Washington Times op-ed from SLF's Shannon Goessling - 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

2/19/2008 WHY 'OFFICIAL ENGLISH' MATTERS As SLF provides legislative testimony in Georgia, the stakes are high - as 30 states have approved 'official English' constitutional amendments and statutes affirming that English is the common language of the United States, particularly for government purposes like driver's license exams and other key functions. See inside for more - Full Text