Today, the Kings are celebrating a Washington court’s decision to pause a state enforcement proceeding while the family continues their fight for the right to a jury trial. Commissioner Hailey L. Landrus found that the Kings face “irreparable” harm in being subjected to “a hearing before a person whom they argue is an unconstitutional factfinder.”

BREAKING: Idaho’s Department of Water Resources ordered a family of farmers to stop pumping water in July 2025, causing crops to fail and stopping future planting. Now we’re suing to defend the Bingham family's water rights.

4/ The Binghams tried to work with the DWR, presenting five proposed water mitigation strategies that would enable them to preserve their rights and their family farm. None have been accepted.

VICTORY: A federal judge denied a request to reconsider a ruling in favor of Alabama family timber operators challenging a federal critical habitat designation for the threatened black pinesnake. The court had ruled in favor of the families last August. Last Friday’s decision leaves that ruling in place and gives a fuller explanation of the court’s finding that the Fish and Wildlife Service assessment of the designation’s economic impacts was deficient. “Alabama families have spent nearly six years fighting a habitat designation that disrupted their timber operations," said PLF attorney Charles Yates. "The court has now rejected an attempt to undo their win. Federal agencies must follow the law when they designate private land and account for the costs to the people who own it.”

BREAKING: Stanley Zhong is suing to challenge the University of Washington’s race-conscious admissions policy. Stanley alleges that the policy violates the Equal Protection Clause and Title VI by judging students as members of racial groups rather than as individuals.

2/ Stanley graduated high school with a 4.42 GPA, 1590 SAT score, and his own software company. Google offered him an engineering role directly out of high school. Yet the University of Washington rejected his application after adopting equity-focused admissions priorities.

LAWSUIT: We filed suit to stop trespassers with packs of hunting dogs regularly intrude upon a retired brigadier general’s Virginia farm. The local sheriff refuses to help due to Virginia’s “right-to-retrieve” law and continues to allow the packs of dogs to harass the family.

4/ This interpretation ignores that the courts, Attorney General, and Department of Wildlife Resources have all stated: the “right-to-retrieve” law may decriminalize certain types of trespass, but it also intentionally preserves the landowner’ right to pursue all civil remedies.

VICTORY! The City of Seattle has eliminated race-based priority placement and a mandatory “anti-racist” pledge from its P-Patch Community Gardening Program. The change follows a demand letter we sent with @fairforall_org, arguing that these violate the Constitution.