Case Summary Public lands should be for public use, right? According to environmentalists, that’s wrong. For many disabled Americans, including many veterans like the Trail Preservation Alliance’s Don Riggle,…
Case Summary Michael and Chantell Sackett own an undeveloped lot near Priest Lake in Bonner County, Idaho. The north and south sides of the property are bounded by roads, and…
William E. Trachman, General Counsel for Mountain States Legal Foundation, today expressed dismay that President Joe Biden would pre-winnow his list of possible Supreme Court candidates to just an African-American woman, thereby eliminating, out-of-hand, the possibility of choosing any other individual for that position who doesn’t meet those criteria.
Mountain States Legal Foundation on Wednesday filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of former Education Department officials who are asking the nation’s top court to review Harvard University admission policies that allegedly discriminate against Asian Americans and others based on race.
Although she is a woman, and the mother of seven, and a faithful Catholic—all admirable traits—it is her record as a judge and scholar that makes her worthy of the bench.
We at Mountain States Legal Foundation could not be more pleased to celebrate the confirmation and swearing in of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. At Mountain States we spend our days before the courts…
Mountain States Legal Foundation president and CEO, Cristen Wohlgemuth signed a letter urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the United States Supreme Court.
Case Summary Issue: Whether a city violates the “one-person, one vote” principle of the Fourteenth Amendment when it creates city council districts that, while roughly equal in total population, are…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the U.S. Forest Service’s mere receipt and review of a hardrock miner’s notice of intent to exercise rights granted to him by Congress in the Mining…
Case Summary Issue: Whether a union may impose a fee for purely political purposes on nonmembers without giving those nonmembers an opportunity to object to the new fees? Plaintiff: Dianne…