IJ's Cases

Economic Liberty | First Amendment
Teaching is Not a Crime: Challenging Virginia’s Unconstitutional Vocational School Licensing Law

Commercial Speech | Economic Liberty | First Amendment | Sign Codes
Dallas Sign Ban Hurts Small Businesses, Violates First Amendment Rights: Law Makes It Nearly Impossible For Entrepreneurs to Advertise


Commercial Speech | Economic Liberty | First Amendment | Interior Design | Interior Design
Free to Design: Challenging Florida’s Unconstitutional Interior Design Law


First Amendment | Sign Codes
Dangerous Trend: Bulldozing Free Speech

Eminent Domain | Private Property
Beyond Its Authority: Eminent Domain Abuse By the St. Paul Port Authority

Economic Liberty
Interior Design Litigation
Commercial Speech | Economic Liberty | First Amendment | Interior Design | Interior Design
Challenging Oklahoma's Licensing of Speech For Interior Designers

Commercial Speech | Economic Liberty | First Amendment | Interior Design | Interior Design
Challenging Connecticut’s Licensing of Speech For Interior Designers

Eminent Domain | Private Property
Taking Music Out of Music City: Nashville Abuses Eminent Domain To Take Small Country Music Business For an Office Building

Economic Liberty | First Amendment | Occupational Licensing | Occupational Speech | Tour Guides
Grassroots Tyranny in the Cradle of the Constitution: Philadelphia Tour Guides Stand Up For the Framers’ Vision of Freedom


Economic Liberty | First Amendment | Occupational Licensing
Texas Government-mandated Computer Repair License Does Not Compute

Economic Liberty | Occupational Licensing
Challenging Barriers To Economic Opportunity: Freeing Maryland Entrepreneurs From the Chiropractic and Veterinary Cartels

Economic Liberty
A Second Challenge to Texas’ Elitist Veterinary Cartel

First Amendment | Political Speech
SpeechNow.org v. FEC Protecting Americans’ Rights To Organize and Speak About Politics

Eminent Domain | Private Property
Knocking Out Eminent Domain Abuse: Youth Gym Files Suit Against National City, Calif.
After decades of keeping two-thirds of the city under a bogus “blight” designation, National City, Calif., applied to renew the blight label to prevent it from expiring. That renewal would have reauthorized the city to…

Economic Liberty | Occupational Licensing
Challenging Texas’ Elitist Veterinary Cartel



Commercial Speech | Economic Liberty | First Amendment | Interior Design
Challenging Texas’ Licensing of Speech For Interior Designers

First Amendment
Signs of Abuse: Fighting Censorship and Eminent Domain Abuse in St. Louis
In a double blow to free speech and property rights, St. Louis not only threatened to take an entire neighborhood for private development. It also tried to censor a powerful mural that protests the city’s…

Economic Liberty | Occupational Licensing | Transportation
Challenging Barriers To Economic Opportunity: Defending Minneapolis’ Free-Market Taxi Reforms Against an Establishment Backlash

Educational Choice | Publicly Funded Scholarships
Arizona Foster Parents and Parents of Children with Disabilities Defend School Choice From Unprecedented Legal Attack
Eminent Domain | Private Property
Supreme Court refused to hear case about eminent domain abuse in New York


Private Property | Rental Inspections
Red Wing Rental Inspections
Under Red Wing, Minn.’s rental inspection ordinance, it is easier for the government to force its way into the homes of law-abiding citizens than to search the home of a suspected criminal.
Educational Choice | Tax Credit Scholarships