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Corporate Profile for Pacific Legal Foundation, dated June 11, 1999.


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Published Date:   June 11, 1999

Company Name:     Pacific Legal Foundation

Address:          10360 Old Placerville Road, Suite 100
                  Sacramento, CA 95827

Main Telephone
 Number:          916/362-2833

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL)           www.pacificlegal.org

President:        Robert K. Best

Public Relations
 Contact:         Frank R. Stephens
 e-mail address:  FRS@pacificlegal.org

Industry:         Legal, non-profit public interest


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Company description:

Pacific Legal Foundation: Defending Individual/Economic Liberties and Free Enterprise

Established on March 5, 1973, Pacific Legal Foundation seeks to regain and strengthen the basic freedoms that underlie our constitutionally limited form of government and the free enterprise system.

PLF Noun 1. PLF - a terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; became a satellite of al-Fatah; made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanese border  defends the right to own and reasonably use private property free of unnecessary government regulations. PLF's battle against intrusive in·tru·sive  
adj.
1. Intruding or tending to intrude.

2. Geology Of or relating to igneous rock that is forced while molten into cracks or between other layers of rock.

3. Linguistics Epenthetic.
 government also extends to challenging rent control, unfair tax assessment policies and no-growth initiatives. PLF opposes race and gender preferences, quotas, and set-asides in government hiring, contracting, and education.

PLF supports education, tort tort, in law, the violation of some duty clearly set by law, not by a specific agreement between two parties, as in breach of contract. When such a duty is breached, the injured party has the right to institute suit for compensatory damages. , and welfare reforms. PLF defends term limits and the rights of crime victims. PLF has a national reputation for its precedent-setting legal advocacy in state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court United States Supreme Court: see Supreme Court, United States. .

PLF is a tax-exempt, charitable organization This article is about charitable organizations. For other uses of the word charity, see Charity.
A charitable organization (also known as a charity) is an organization with charitable purposes only.
 under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws.  Code, and it relies entirely upon private (tax-deductible) donations for support. PLF's national litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute.

When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation.
 center is located at 10360 Old Placerville Road, Suite 100, Sacramento, CA 95827, 916/362-2833. PLF also operates a Northwest Center in Bellevue, Wash.; an Atlantic Center in Miami, Fla.; and a Hawaii Center in Honolulu. For more information visit our Web site at www.pacificlegal.org.
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