Professional Documents
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Summer 2016
MOUNTAIN
STATES
LEGAL
FOUNDATION
Executive Offices:
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www.mountainstateslegal.org
would contact Mr. Johnson on the next
steps. They never did.
On January 30, 2014, the EPA issued
a Compliance Order against Mr. Johnson
demanding that he remove a dam and
stock pond he built and engage in costly
restoration of his land under a threat of
civil and criminal penalties, including
fines of at least $75,000 for each day of
non-compliance. On August 27, 2015,
assisted by local counsel in Cheyenne,
Wyoming, and Pacific Legal Foundation
of California, which joined with MSLF,
Mr. Johnson sued the EPA. At that
point, the New York Times picked up the
story with the headline, Family Pond
Boils at Center of a Regulatory War in
Wyoming.
The day after his MSLF-aided victory
over the EPA, Mr. Johnson was congratulated by Stuart Varney of Fox Business
for being free of $16 million in fines and
was then asked, Do you have a big legal
bill? No, we dont. We were fortunate
enough to haveMountain States Legal
Foundation help us free of charge.
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PENDLEYS VIEW
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Paul Kengor, author of The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
Warriors for the West: Fighting Bureaucrats, Radical Groups, and Liberal Judges on
Americas Frontier (Regnery, 2006):
Linda Chavez
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LEGAL
ACTION
n The Supreme Court, consistent
with a friend of the court brief by
MSLF, upheld (4-4) the injunction
issued against President Obamas
immigration decree.
n The American Exploration &
Mining Association challenged the
withdrawal of ten million acres
of federal lands from operation of
the General Mining Law of 1872
ostensibly to protect the sage-grouse.
n The Petroleum Association of
Wyoming moved to intervene in a
new lawsuit by environmental groups
regarding the sage-grouse.
n On behalf of the Colorado Union
of Taxpayers Foundation (CUT),
MSLF urged the Colorado Court of
NOTABLE
QUOTES
These de-growthers (as they more
honestly call themselves in Europe) need to
be smacked down for conspiracy to deprive
people or corporations of the First Amendment rights.
Donald Graves
St. George, UT
There is no end to what these Communists will try and do! Keep up the good
work.
Tim D. Nordell
Sedan, KS
Thanks for your good article on Justice Antonio Scalia.
Jim Hicks
Hacienda Heights, CA
Thank you and the MSLF for standing up to another government bully, the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Gerald L. Carkhuff
Midwest City, OK
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MOUNTAIN
STATES
LEGAL
FOUNDATION
Steven J. Lechner
VICE PRESIDENTADMINISTRATION
Janice K. Alvarado
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
served ExxonMobil. Ordered produced are all written material or informationrelated to over 100 academics (named
individually), public interest legal foundations, and think tanks,
a list cobbled together, according to one expert from an unverified screed on Greenpeaces website. Thus, the top law
enforcement officer in States across the country has targeted
people, groups, and leaders for having the
temerity to disagree. MSLF was listed on
page 13 of the subpoena.
Rest assured that, MSLF, its Directors,
and Board of Litigation, and dedicated
staff, and its thousands of supporters
across the country, intend to fight back
and will resist this effort to frighten us,
keep us from defending freedom, and
speaking the truth. Furthermore, although
MSLFs Privacy Policy, under Transfer of
Information, provides, In rare circumstances, [MSLF] will disclose personal identifiable information upon receipt of a court
order or subpoena, and to cooperate with a law enforcement
investigation[,] MSLF does not regard the subpoena issued
by the Attorney General of the Virginia Islandsin association
with Attorneys General from California, Connecticut, District of
Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont,
Washington, and the U.S. Virgin Islandsas a legal subpoena.
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