Our firm has been retained to assist in the defense of Daniel Chapter One (DCO), a health and healing ministry, and which is under attack by the FTC. On January 11, 2009, DCO filed a Motion to Dismiss.
Information about the FTC attack on this ministry.
The Senior Citizens League Petition on U.S./Mexico Totalization Agreement Submitted to President-Elect Obama’s Transition Team
On behalf of The Senior Citizens League, we submitted a “Petition In Support of Social Security Protection, and in Opposition to Bush Administration’s United States Mexico Totalization Agreement” to the Obama-Biden Transition Team.
Akins v. United States, 11th Circuit Another Brief Contesting ATF’s Definition of a “Machinegun”
On November 26, 2008, the firm filed an amicus brief on behalf of Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) and Gun Owners of America (GOA) in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in support of Bill Akins. Akins is the inventor of the Akins Accelerator — a patented replacement stock of a semiautomatic firearm that through controlled “bump firing” increases the rate of fire, after
Herb Titus Quoted in Article about Electoral College
Today, in the lead story in World Net Daily, Herb Titus discussed the constitutional obligation of the Electoral College to determine whether a candidate is constitutionally-eligible to be President, there being concerns raised as to whether Barak Obama is a “natural born Citizen.”
Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution states: “No Person except a natural born Citizen,
U.S. v. David R. Olofson Brief in Support of Appellant Olofson in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Docket No. 08-2294)
We filed a brief on behalf of David R. Olfoson, who was convicted and is serving a sentence for “transferring a machinegun,” which actually was a legal but malfunctioning AR-15 rifle.
U.S. v. David R. Olofson Reply Brief in Support of Appellant Olofson in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Docket No. 08-2294)
We filed our reply brief, responding to the government’s opposition which maintained that a malfunctioning AR-15 rifle is a machinegun.
Herb Titus Delivers Keynote Address at Restoring Our Heritage Fall Banquet
On October 14, 2008, Herb Titus delivered the keynote address at the Fall Banquet of Restoring Our Heritage in Evansville, Indiana. In this address, he not only spoke of the unconstitutionality of earmarks, but of bailouts and electronic eavesdropping as violations of the God-given private property rights.
Gun Owners Foundation Amicus Brief Filed in United States v. Hayes U.S. Supreme Court
On September 26, 2008, we filed on behalf of Gun Owners Foundation an amicus brief in United States v. Hayes. The GOF brief urged the Supreme Court to affirm a Fourth Circuit court of appeals ruling that, as a matter of statutory interpretation, an individual does not lose the right to own a gun unless the prosecutor in the misdemeanor case proves beyond a reasonable doubt
U.S. v. Ramos/Compean Amicus Brief in Support of Petition for Rehearing U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
We filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in support of two former Border Patrol agents’ Petitions for Rehearing. This brief emphasized areas where the Fifth Circuit panel’s decision was inconsistent with the law as set forth in our earlier brief filed with the court on May 25, 2007.
Our amicus brief was filed on behalf of Congressmen Walter B. Jones (R-NC),
Wyeth v. Levine Amicus Brief Filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Behalf of The Senior Citizens League
On behalf of The Senior Citizens League (“TSCL”), we filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court in Wyeth v. Levine (Supreme Court Docket No. 06-1249) on behalf of the respondent, Diana Levine. The issue in this case is whether approval of a drug and its labeling by the Food and Drug Administration
Free Speech Coalition Reply Comments on Cooperative Mail Rule
On behalf of Free Speech Coalition, we filed Reply Comments in Postal Regulatory Commission Docket No. PI2008 4 opposing broadening the cooperative mail rule to impose significant burdens on new and smaller nonprofit organizations.
Article: Owner of Broken Rifle Surrenders for 30-Month Sentence
This article discusses our firm being retained to represent David Olofson of Wisconsin who was sentenced to a 30-month prison term for having a broken rifle.
Free Speech Coalition Initial Comments on Cooperative Mail Rule
On behalf of the Free Speech Coalition, we filed Initial Comments in Postal Regulatory Commission Docket No. PI2008 4 requesting that the Commission make no change to the cooperative mail rule (CMR) in the Postal Service’s regulations that was revised by the Postal Service in 2003. The Commission is reviewing the CMR pursuant to the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, Pub. L. 109 435, Section
Evaluating Negotiated Services Agreements for Market Dominant Products Under PAEA
Bill Olson co-authored “Evaluating Negotiated Services Agreements for Market Dominant Products Under PAEA,” a paper presented by co-author John Haldi, Ph.D. at the 27th Annual Eastern Conference, Advanced Workshop in Regulation and Competition, Skytop, Pennsylvania (May 15, 2008).
Gun Owners of America/Gun Owners Foundation Comments to the U.S. Postal Service Regarding “Proposed New Standards Prohibit the Mailing of Replica or Inert Munitions”
Today, on behalf of Gun Owners of American and Gun Owners Foundation, we filed comments opposing the United States Postal Service’s “Proposed New Standards Prohibit the Mailing of Replica or Inert Munitions.” (See 73 Fed. Reg. 12321.) The new rule proposes to declare nonmailable “[r]eplica or inert munitions.”
The comments demonstrate that the proposed standard is
The Constitutional Case Against Congressional ‘Earmarks’
The unconstitutional practice of congressional earmarks as a violation of the separation of powers and the prohibition against titles of nobility was the topic of an article by Herb Titus, published in the April 2008 issue of the Perspective, a monthly public policy journal of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, headquartered in Oklahoma City.
USA Today Op-Ed Defending Second Amendment
Today, the day after oral argument in the Heller case in which we filed an amicus brief, Herb Titus and Bill Olson were asked to write an op-ed piece for USA Today.
The USA Today editors wrote an editorial entitled “Our View: Preserve limits on guns” and our counterpoint is entitled “Opposing view: An unambiguous right.”
District of Columbia, et. al., v. Dick Anthony Heller Amicus Brief for Gun Owners of America, Inc., et. al.
Today, our firm filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court supporting the respondent in the D.C. gun ban case, District of Columbia, et. al., v. Dick Anthony Heller, No. 07-290. The brief was filed on behalf of Gun Owners of America, Inc., Gun Owners Foundation, Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., Virginia Citizens Defense League, Gun Owners of California, Inc., Lincoln Institute for
TSCL Comments on FDA Report “FDA Science and Mission at Risk: Report of the Subcommittee on Science and Technology”
On behalf of TREA Senior Citizens League (“TSCL”), we filed comments with the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) in opposition to the FDA’s Science Board Report Entitled “FDA Science and Mission at Risk: Report of the Subcommittee on Science and Technology.”
The Report asserts that the FDA is in danger of not being able to perform its mission without a vast and unprecedented doubling
Herbert W. Titus — A Reply to Professor Michael J. Deboer
Herb Titus addresses how the Bible informs the law administered by civil government in Liberty University Law Review, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Article 7.
Herb Titus on The Bible and American Law
Herb Titus addresses this topic in Liberty University Law Review Volume 2, Issue 2, Article 3.
Abigail Alliance Case — Amicus Brief Filed In U.S. Supreme Court for The Seniors Citizen League
Today we filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court in the case of Abigail Alliance v. VonEschenbach, Commissioner of the FDA. The U.S. Supreme Court had been asked by an alliance of terminally ill patients with no conventional medical alternatives to overturn an en banc decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit which allows the FDA to bar these patients’ access to certain
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, Inc. FOIA Requests filed with Federal Reserve Board and Treasury Department
Today, on behalf of GATA, we filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests with the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Treasury Department seeking information on the nation’s gold stock — specifically, records since 1990 “gold swaps” reflected in the U.S. reserve assets, including any gold swaps entered into by the federal government with foreign countries and foreign banks.