State Watch

The Docket: July 3, 2026

The Docket is PLF's weekly newsletter covering the cases, clients, and policy battles shaping the future of liberty in America. You can catch up on last week's Docket here and subscribe below to recei...

2026-07-04

Attorney General Bonta Secures 16-Year Prison Sentence Against Organized Retail Theft Ringleader

July 2, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected] DIEGO— California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced a 16-year prison sentence secured against Rodney Allen Flynt Jr., the lead...

2026-07-02

American Heroes: A Special America 250 Edition

Since launching last fall, American Heroes has introduced listeners to Pacific Legal Foundation clients who have stood up to unlawful government overreach. This month, in honor of America's 250th anni...

2026-07-02

California Department of Justice Releases Report on Officer-Involved Shooting of Scott William Thompson

July 2, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]— California Attorney General Rob Bonta, pursuant to Assembly Bill 1506 (AB 1506), today released areporton Scott William Thompson’s...

2026-07-02

What history has to say about the fairness of tax sales

In its recent decision in Pung v. Isabella County, the Supreme Court ruled that when the government sells your home to satisfy a tax debt, just compensation comes from the surplus of a fairly conducte...

2026-07-02

Attorney General Bonta Co-Leads Opposition to Proposed USPS Rule Creating Centralized Voter List, Restricting Mail Voting

July 2, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]— California Attorney General Rob Bonta today co-led a coalition of 24 attorneys general infiling a comment letteropposing a United ...

2026-07-02

Ahead of Independence Day, homeowners are warned against flying American flags

On July 4, 1776, a group of patriots mutually pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor when they signed the Declaration of Independence. The document signaled the official severing of ties with...

2026-07-02

Free to Flourish: Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday

Free to Flourish is PLF's Environment and Natural Resources quarterly newsletter. If you agree that a better world is possible through liberty—that a thriving environment and free individuals are not ...

2026-07-02

Supreme Court rules for presidential removal power in Trump v. Slaughter

For nearly a century, federal law barred the president from firing members of the Federal Trade Commission unless they could be shown to have committed "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance i...

2026-07-01

Attorney General Bonta Urges Trump Administration to Withdraw Unlawful Contractor Production and Reporting Requirements

July 2, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected] would impose unclear, confusing, potentially duplicative, and burdensome obligations on federal contractors and subcontractorsOAKL...

2026-07-02

California State Parks pass programs reach major milestones during last week to download the free Historian Passport

2026-07-02

Los programas de pases de los Parques Estatales de California alcanzaron logros importantes en la ultima semana para descargar el Pasaporte Historiador gratuito

2026-07-02

Attorney General Bonta Defeats Huntington Beach's Attempt to Sue State for Enforcing Housing Laws

July 1, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected] rejects City’s lawsuit against California and allows the State to recover attorney’s feesOAKLAND— California Attorney General Rob Bon...

2026-07-02

Hey, NIMBY Huntington Beach…you tired of losing yet?

2026-07-02

El Gobernador Newsom y la Tesorera Estatal Fiona Ma anuncian colaboración con Early Wealth Partnership para facilitar el acceso de las familias a recursos financieros para sus hijos

2026-07-01

Attorney General Bonta Issues Guidance and Model Policies for State and Local Agency Interactions with Immigration Authorities and Protection of Agency-Held Data

July 1, 2026Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]— California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issuedguidance and model policiesfor state and local agencies to inform their interact...

2026-07-01