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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160315075731/http://atlanticlegal.org/about-us/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;">Atlantic Legal Foundation (ALF)</a> is a non-profit law firm established in 1977 with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160315075731/http://atlanticlegal.org/about-us/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mission</a> of “advocating limited and efficient government, free enterprise, individual liberty, school choice and sound science.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a>

ALF provides

legal services pro bono to individuals, corporations, and trade

associations. The organization focuses its operations on issues

affecting free enterprise and on “limited constitutional government.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a>

While ALF acknowledges that climate change is a real issue, the organization has opposed the EPA in court on topics such as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160315075125/http://atlanticlegal.org/2015/01/14/jurisdictional-determinations-and-the-clean-water-act/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the clean water act</a> and the <a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Atlantic+Legal+Foundation+Files+Amicus+Brief+in+Important...-a0153581018" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">regulation of automobiles' CO2 emissions</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s25" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[25]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s6" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a>

Among the organization's more prominent members is <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/alan-moghissi" style="text-decoration-line: none;">A. Alan Moghissi</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130311051833/http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1998Q4/dogs.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According to an article at PR Watch</a>,

Moghissi characterizes environmentalism as a belief that “members of

endangered species deserve protection and that, because there are

billions of humans, humanity does not qualify for protection.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s27" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[27]</a>

Moghissi also supports, or is a member of, organizations that question the existence of man-made climate change, including the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_the_Study_of_Carbon_Dioxide_and_Global_Change" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s27" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[28]</a>

<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/rodney-nichols" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rodney W. Nichols</a> is another prominent ALF member

with a history of questioning the existence of man-made climate change.

Nichols is affiliated with various organizations that promote climate

science contrarianism, such as the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/co2-coalition" style="text-decoration-line: none;">CO2 Coalition</a> and the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/manhattan-institute-policy-research" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Manhattan Institute for Policy Research</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s29" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[29]</a>

In February 2016, Nichols co-authored a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160914111053/http://nypost.com/2016/02/15/the-supreme-court-sided-with-science-against-obama/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York Post article</a> that included the following quote: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s30" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[30]</a>

“The

war on fossil fuels isn’t based on science but on unreliable climate

models. Rather than trying to correct the models, Team Obama is trying

to 'dispute the science' by trying to manufacture scary warming trends.”

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ALF includes programs in the following areas:

<li>“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151005232816/https://www.atlanticlegal.org/program.php?catid=1" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">School Choice</a>”</li>

<li>“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151005214611/https://www.atlanticlegal.org/program.php?catid=2" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Sound Science</a>”</li>

<li>“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150228044721/http://www.atlanticlegal.org/program.php?catid=3" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Constitutional Issues</a>”</li>

<li>“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151006035337/https://www.atlanticlegal.org/program.php?catid=4" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Corporate Governance</a>”</li>

</ul>

<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Stance on Climate Change</h2>

In an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140806021500/http://atlanticlegal.org/php/uploads/4108.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Amicus Brief</a> filed on October 25, 2006, the ALF expressed the following in a footnote: “There is no doubt that CO2 levels

in the atmosphere have risen faster than at any time in history and

there is little doubt that the average world temperature has been

increasing, probably as a consequence.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a>

<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Funding</h2>

Conservative Transparency<a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/basic-search/?q=atlantic+legal+foundation&sf%5B%5D=candidate&sf%5B%5D=donor&sf%5B%5D=recipient&sf%5B%5D=transaction&sf%5B%5D=finances#transactions" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> summarizes ALF's funding</a> from

1985 onwards. Note that not all individual funding values have been

verified by DeSmog. View the attached spreadsheet for details on <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Atlantic%20Legal%20Foundation%20Funding%20by%20year.xlsx" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Atlantic Legal Foundation's Funding by year (.xlsx</a>). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s7" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a>

<table style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" width="368" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="1"><tbody><tr height="21"><td width="287" height="21">Organizations</td><td width="81">Total</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/scaife-family-foundations" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a></td><td align="right">$2,230,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/F.M.Kirby_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">F.M. Kirby Foundation</a></td><td align="right">$490,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jaquelin_Hume_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Jaquelin Hume Foundation</a></td><td align="right">$300,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_M.Olin_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John M. Olin Foundation</a></td><td align="right">$210,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Castle_Rock_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Castle Rock Foundation</a></td><td align="right">$80,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a></td><td align="right">$75,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Exxon_Mobil" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Exxon Mobil</a></td><td align="right">$25,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-family-foundations" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation</a></td><td align="right">$20,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_M.McKenna_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Philip M. McKenna Foundation</a></td><td align="right">$19,000</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21">Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Foundation</td><td align="right">$2,500</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/who-donors-trust" style="text-decoration-line: none;">DonorsTrust</a></td><td align="right">$100</td></tr><tr height="21"><td height="21">Grand Total</td><td align="right">$3,451,600</td></tr></tbody></table>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=16" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According to ExxonSecrets</a>, ALF has also received funding from large corporations such as ASARCO, ARCO Chemical Co, Chevron, DuPont, Pfizer, and Texaco.  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a>

<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Key People</h2>

<h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Board of Directors</h3>

<table style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; width: 697px;" width="1310" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="1"><tbody><tr height="21"><td style="width: 73px;" width="176" height="21">Name</td><td style="width: 43px;" width="87">2007<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s11" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></td><td style="width: 35px;" width="87">2008<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s12" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></td><td style="width: 27px;" width="87">2009<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s13" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a></td><td style="width: 32px;" width="87">2010<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></td><td style="width: 35px;" width="87">2011<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s15" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a></td><td style="width: 21px;" width="87">2013<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s17" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a></td><td style="width: 14px;" width="87">2014<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a></td><td style="width: 14px;" width="87">2015<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s19" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[19]</a></td><td style="width: 1px;" width="87">2017<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s20" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[20]</a></td><td style="width: 117px;" width="264">Description</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 73px;" height="21">Andrea E. Utecht</td><td style="width: 43px;">

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</td><td style="width: 117px;">Board of Directors, Former Secretary</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 73px;" height="21">Clifford B. Storms</td><td style="width: 43px;">Y</td><td style="width: 35px;">Y</td><td style="width: 27px;">Y</td><td style="width: 32px;">Y</td><td style="width: 35px;">Y</td><td style="width: 21px;">Y</td><td style="width: 14px;">Y</td><td style="width: 14px;">Y</td><td style="width: 1px;">

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</td><td style="width: 117px;">Chairman Emeritus</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 73px;" height="21">Jay B. Stephens</td><td style="width: 43px;">

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</td><td style="width: 35px;">Y</td><td style="width: 27px;">Y</td><td style="width: 32px;">Y</td><td style="width: 35px;">Y</td><td style="width: 21px;">Y</td><td style="width: 14px;">Y</td><td style="width: 14px;">Y</td><td style="width: 1px;">

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</td><td style="width: 117px;">Board of Directors</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 73px;" height="21">Robert E. Juceam</td><td style="width: 43px;">Y</td><td style="width: 35px;">Y</td><td style="width: 27px;">Y</td><td style="width: 32px;">Y</td><td style="width: 35px;">Y</td><td style="width: 21px;">Y</td><td style="width: 14px;">Y</td><td style="width: 14px;">Y</td><td style="width: 1px;">Y</td><td style="width: 117px;">Board of Directors</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 73px;" height="21">Robert L. Haig</td><td style="width: 43px;">Y</td><td style="width: 35px;">Y</td><td style="width: 27px;">Y</td><td style="width: 32px;">Y</td><td style="width: 35px;">Y</td><td style="width: 21px;">Y</td><td style="width: 14px;">Y</td><td style="width: 14px;">Y</td><td style="width: 1px;">Y</td><td style="width: 117px;">Board of Directors</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 73px;" height="21">Stephen J. Harmelin</td><td style="width: 43px;">Y</td><td style="width: 35px;">Y</td><td style="width: 27px;">Y</td><td style="width: 32px;">Y</td><td style="width: 35px;">Y</td><td style="width: 21px;">Y</td><td style="width: 14px;">Y</td><td style="width: 14px;">Y</td><td style="width: 1px;">Y</td><td style="width: 117px;">Board of Directors, Former Treasurer</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 73px;" height="21">Thomas E. Birsic</td><td style="width: 43px;">

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</td><td style="width: 117px;">President (until 2016)</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 73px;" height="21">William P. Cook</td><td style="width: 43px;">

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<h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Foundation Officers</h3>

<table style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; width: 690px;" width="608" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="1"><tbody><tr height="21"><td style="width: 138px;" width="173" height="21">Name</td><td style="width: 48px;" width="87">2007<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s11" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></td><td style="width: 31px;" width="87">2015<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s19" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[19]</a></td><td style="width: 31px;" width="87">2016<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s23" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[23]</a></td><td style="width: 39px;" width="87">2017<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s24" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[24]</a></td><td style="width: 340px;" width="87">Description</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 138px;" height="21">Briscoe R. Smith</td><td style="width: 48px;">Y</td><td style="width: 31px;">Y</td><td style="width: 31px;">

</td><td style="width: 39px;">

</td><td style="width: 340px;">Senior Vice President and Counsel</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 138px;" height="21">Hayward D. Fisk</td><td style="width: 48px;">

</td><td style="width: 31px;">

</td><td style="width: 31px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 340px;">Chairman; Acting President (2016 to present)</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 138px;" height="21">Martin S. Kaufman</td><td style="width: 48px;">Y</td><td style="width: 31px;">Y</td><td style="width: 31px;">Y</td><td style="width: 39px;">Y</td><td style="width: 340px;">Senior Vice President and General Counsel</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 138px;" height="21">William H. Slattery</td><td style="width: 48px;">Y</td><td style="width: 31px;">Y</td><td style="width: 31px;">

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</td><td style="width: 340px;">President (until 2016)</td></tr></tbody></table>

Advisory Council

<table style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; width: 692px;" width="890" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="1"><tbody><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" width="344" height="21">Name</td><td style="width: 33px;" width="124">2007<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s11" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></td><td style="width: 5px;" width="41">2008<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s12" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></td><td style="width: 24px;" width="41">2009<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s13" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a></td><td style="width: 12px;" width="41">2010<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></td><td style="width: 20px;" width="41">2011<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s15" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a></td><td style="width: 17px;" width="41">2012<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></td><td style="width: 36px;" width="41">2013<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s17" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a></td><td style="width: 34px;" width="41">2015<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s19" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[19]</a></td><td style="width: 42px;" width="41">2016<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s21" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a></td><td style="width: 45px;" width="53">2017<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s22" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[22]</a></td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/alan-moghissi" style="text-decoration-line: none;">A. Alan Moghissi</a></td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">A. F.Spilhaus, Jr.</td><td style="width: 33px;">

</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Adam Offenhartz</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">

</td><td style="width: 34px;">

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</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Alan Charles Raul</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Albert W. Driver</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

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</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Alfred L. Ferguson</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">

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</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Arthur F. Fergenson</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">

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</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Barry H. Smith</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">

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</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=140" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Briscoe R. Smith </a></td><td style="width: 33px;">

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</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">C. Thomas Harvie</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Charles M. Elson</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">

</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Charles W. Mooney, Jr.</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">David C. Apy</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">

</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Dennis McBride</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Frederick T. Elder</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">George E. Ehrlich </td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">

</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Hamilton Osborne, Jr.</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">

</td><td style="width: 17px;">

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</td><td style="width: 34px;">

</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Hayward D. Fisk</td><td style="width: 33px;">

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</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Henry_N_Butler" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Henry N. Butler</a></td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Hung Cheung</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">John H. Carley</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">John J. Calandra</td><td style="width: 33px;">

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</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">John Kenney</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Lance H. Wilson</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">

</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Michael S. Nadel</td><td style="width: 33px;">

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</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Michael X. McBride</td><td style="width: 33px;">

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</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Ozgur Ozkan</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Patricia Buffler</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">

</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Patrick Sheller</td><td style="width: 33px;">

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</td><td style="width: 36px;">

</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=149" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Paul C. Rooney, Jr.</a></td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Philip S. Guzelian</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">

</td><td style="width: 24px;">

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</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Prof. Charles M. Elson</td><td style="width: 33px;">

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</td><td style="width: 36px;">

</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Prof. Richard Wilson</td><td style="width: 33px;">

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</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">R. Edwin Selover</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">

</td><td style="width: 20px;">

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</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=716" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Richard A. Hauser</a></td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.disinfopedia.org/index.php/Richard_Wilson(UK)" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Wilson</a></td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Robert Gold</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/rodney-nichols" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rodney W. Nichols</a></td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Roger S. Kaplan</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ronald_E_Gots" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ronald E. Gots</a></td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Sam Scott Miller</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">

</td><td style="width: 36px;">

</td><td style="width: 34px;">

</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Stephen T. Whelan</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Susan_L.Meade" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Susan L. Meade</a></td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Thomas R. Gottshall</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thor_Halvorssen" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Thor Halvorssen</a></td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">

</td><td style="width: 34px;">

</td><td style="width: 42px;">

</td><td style="width: 45px;">

</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">Victoria P. Rostow</td><td style="width: 33px;">

</td><td style="width: 5px;">

</td><td style="width: 24px;">

</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">Y</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">Y</td><td style="width: 42px;">Y</td><td style="width: 45px;">Y</td></tr><tr height="21"><td style="width: 136px;" height="21">William G. Primps</td><td style="width: 33px;">Y</td><td style="width: 5px;">Y</td><td style="width: 24px;">Y</td><td style="width: 12px;">Y</td><td style="width: 20px;">Y</td><td style="width: 17px;">

</td><td style="width: 36px;">Y</td><td style="width: 34px;">

</td><td style="width: 42px;">

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<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Actions</h2>

December 1, 2014

The ALF <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160315075125/http://atlanticlegal.org/2015/01/14/jurisdictional-determinations-and-the-clean-water-act/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">filed an amicus brief</a> on

behalf of a couple that purchased property in Connecticut who were

mired in legal battles with the Army Corps Engineers over the portion of

their land that is considered publicly-owned wetlands. The amicus brief

was summarized on the ALF's site: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s25" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[25]</a>

“Our

brief highlights and puts a human face on the barriers and frustrations

faced by landowners whose property is deemed to contain jurisdictional

wetlands by either the Army Corps of Engineers or the EPA.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s25" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[25]</a>

November 25, 2014

The ALF <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161012062221/http://atlanticlegal.org/2014/11/25/foundation-files-comments-on-proposed-epa-rule-on-federal-wetlands-jurisdiction/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">filed extensive comments</a> in

which it critiqued the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule

titled “Waters of the United States Under the Clean Water Act, 79 Fed.

Reg. 22188, et seq.”

The ALF included the following summary of its comments on its website: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s26" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[26]</a>

“The issue of federal wetlands jurisdiction is controversial because it enables two federal agencies, EPA and

the Corps, which have concurrent Clean Water Act enforcement

jurisdiction, to extensively and intensively regulate land use down to

individual lots, and, in effect, to override local zoning and land use

regulation and to use their permitting process to micro-manage

development on private land throughout the country, even in areas that

are not, at least in the common-sense meaning, wetlands.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s26" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[26]</a>

“The Foundation's comments on the Proposed Rule assert that EPAs

proposed rule is unreasonably broad, rendering virtually all water

bodies with few exceptions subject to the jurisdiction of the USACE and the EPA and that it conflicts with the more concrete and limited plurality test in Rapanos.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s26" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[26]</a>

October 25, 2006

The ALF <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151006054202/http://atlanticlegal.org/printnews.php?nid=171" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">filed an amicus brief</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140806021500/http://atlanticlegal.org/php/uploads/4108.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">PDF</a>), to the United States Supreme Court in Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a>

Where states and environmental activist organizations were asking the court to order the EPA to regulate some greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, ALF's brief <a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Atlantic+Legal+Foundation+Files+Amicus+Brief+in+Important...-a0153581018" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">argues</a> that regulating automobiles' CO2 emissions

is not only ineffective in attempting to control global concentrations

of “greenhouse gases,” but it also may have an economic cost that far

exceeds alternatives. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s6" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a>

<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Atlantic Legal Foundation Contact & Location </h2>

As of January 30, 2017, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170204072247/http://atlanticlegal.org/2017/01/30/atlantic-legal-foundation-new-address/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">main contact address</a> was: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s9" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a>

500 Mamaroneck

Suite 320

Harrison, NY 10528 USA

(914) 834-3322

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<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Related Organizations</h2>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pacific_Legal_Foundation" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Pacific Legal Foundation</a> — created the Atlantic Legal Foundation <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s10" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Legal_Center_for_the_Public_Interest" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">National Legal Center for the Public Interest</a> — sister organization, also created by the Pacific Legal Foundation <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s10" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Legal_Foundation" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Washington Legal Foundation</a> — sister organization, also created by the Pacific Legal Foundation <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/atlantic-legal-foundation#s10" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a></li>

</ul>

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<a name="s1" id="s1">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160315075731/http://atlanticlegal.org/about-us/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">About Us</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived March 15, 2016. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/0BK68" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/0BK68</a>

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<a id="s2" name="s2" /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140806021500/http://atlanticlegal.org/php/uploads/4108.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Amicus Brief (PDF) of COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, ET AL., PETITIONERS, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, ET AL., RESPONDENTS</a>. No. 05-1120. October 26, 2006. Archived.pdf on file at DeSmog.

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<a name="s3" id="s3">“</a><a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation/funders" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Atlantic Legal Foundation</a>,” Media Matters. Accessed January, 2012.

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<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=16" name="s4" id="s4" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Atlantic Legal Foundation, ALF</a>.

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<a name="s5" id="s5">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151006054202/http://atlanticlegal.org/printnews.php?nid=171" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Atlantic Legal Foundation Files Amicus Brief with Supreme Court in Important Environmental Case</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation, October 25, 2006. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/o3CT8" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/o3CT8</a>

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<a id="s6" name="s6">“</a><a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Atlantic+Legal+Foundation+Files+Amicus+Brief+in+Important...-a0153581018" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Atlantic Legal Foundation Files Amicus Brief in Important Environmental Case in the Supreme Court</a>,” The Free Library.

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<a id="s7" name="s7">“</a><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/basic-search/?q=atlantic+legal+foundation&sf%5B%5D=candidate&sf%5B%5D=donor&sf%5B%5D=recipient&sf%5B%5D=transaction&sf%5B%5D=finances#transactions" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Atlantic Legal Foundation</a>,” Conservative Transparency. Search performed January 26, 2017.

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<a id="s8" name="s8">William Pentland. “</a><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/10/23/climate-skeptic-non-consensus-science-is-likely-junk/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Climate Skeptic: Non-Consensus Science Is Likely Junk</a>,” Forbes, October 23, 2011.

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<a id="s9" name="s9" /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170204072247/http://atlanticlegal.org/2017/01/30/atlantic-legal-foundation-new-address/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“Atlantic Legal Foundation New Address,”</a> Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived February 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/gi40c" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/gi40c</a>

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<a id="s10" name="s10">“</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pacific_Legal_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Atlantic Legal Foundation</a>,” Sourcewatch. Accessed January 26, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/J0u49" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/J0u49</a>

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<a id="s11" name="s11">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070607204145/http://atlanticlegal.org/leadership.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Leadership</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived June 7, 2007. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/7b55t" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/7b55t</a>

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<a id="s12" name="s12">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080505001045/http://www.atlanticlegal.org/leadership.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Leadership</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived May 5, 2008. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/S12NK" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/S12NK</a>

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<a id="s13" name="s13">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090430152846/http://www.atlanticlegal.org/leadership.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Leadership</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived April 30, 2009. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/CMFuD" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/CMFuD</a>

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<a id="s14" name="s14">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100129172339/http://www.atlanticlegal.org/leadership.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Leadership</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived Jan 29, 2010. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/04BOW" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/04BOW</a>

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<a id="s15" name="s15">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110725023252/http://atlanticlegal.org/leadership.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Leadership</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived July 25, 2011. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/VyzG7" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/VyzG7</a>

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<a id="s16" name="s16">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120512114003/http://www.atlanticlegal.org/leadership.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Leadership</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived May 12, 2012. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/61QOK" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/61QOK</a>

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<a id="s17" name="s17">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130602175226/http://www.atlanticlegal.org/leadership.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Leadership</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived June 2, 2013. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/p6t5A" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/p6t5A</a>

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<a id="s18" name="s18">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140630020702/http://atlanticlegal.org/leadership.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Leadership</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived June 30, 2014. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/uIk0l" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/uIk0l</a>

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<a id="s19" name="s19">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150405013303/http://www.atlanticlegal.org/leadership.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Leadership</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived April 5, 2015. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/a2fAN" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/a2fAN</a>

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<a id="s20" name="s20">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170127012213/http://atlanticlegal.org/category/alf-leadership/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ALF Leadership</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived January 27, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/9GRvK" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/9GRvK</a>

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<a id="s21" name="s21">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160315074031/http://atlanticlegal.org/category/alf-leadership/advisory-council/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Advisory Council</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived March 15, 2016. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/4jjby" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/4jjby</a>

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<a id="s22" name="s22">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170127072159/http://atlanticlegal.org/category/alf-leadership/advisory-council/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Advisory Council</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived January 27, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/XrSYG" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/XrSYG</a>

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<a id="s23" name="s23">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160118075438/http://atlanticlegal.org/category/alf-leadership/atlantic-legal-foundation-officers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Atlantic Legal Foundation Officers</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived January 18, 2016. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/0IlOo" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/0IlOo</a>

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<a id="s24" name="s24">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170127094244/http://atlanticlegal.org/category/alf-leadership/atlantic-legal-foundation-officers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Atlantic Legal Foundation Officers</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived January 27, 2017. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/hgsbR" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/hgsbR</a>

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<a id="s25" name="s25">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160315075125/http://atlanticlegal.org/2015/01/14/jurisdictional-determinations-and-the-clean-water-act/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Jurisdictional Determinations and the Clean Water Act</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived March 15, 2016. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/6qlAf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/6qlAf</a>

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<a id="s26" name="s26">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161012062221/http://atlanticlegal.org/2014/11/25/foundation-files-comments-on-proposed-epa-rule-on-federal-wetlands-jurisdiction/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Foundation Files Comments on Proposed EPA Rule on Federal Wetlands Jurisdiction</a>,” Atlantic Legal Foundation. Archived October 12, 2016. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/aJtqE" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/aJtqE</a>

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<a id="s27" name="s27"> John Stauber. Sheldon Rampton. “</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130311051833/http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1998Q4/dogs.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Junkyard Dogs of Science</a>,” PR Watch, Fourth Quarter 1998, Volume 5, No. 4. Archived March 11, 2013. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.fo/8qpHS#selection-893.0-893.36" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://archive.is/8qpHS#selection-893.0-893.36</a>

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<a id="s28" name="s28">“</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/alan-moghissi" style="text-decoration-line: none;">A. Alan Moghissi</a>,” DeSmog. Last revision February 9, 2016.

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<a id="s29" name="s29">“</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/rodney-nichols" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rodney W. Nichols</a>,” DeSmog. Last revision January 28, 2017.

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<a id="s30" name="s30"> Rod Nichols. Will Happer. “</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160914111053/http://nypost.com/2016/02/15/the-supreme-court-sided-with-science-against-obama/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Supreme Court sided with science against Obama</a>,” New York Post, February 15, 2016. Archived September 14, 2016. Archive.is URL: <a href="https://archive.is/SGu0y" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://archive.is/SGu0y</a>

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Atlantic Legal Foundation is

a public interest law firm that advocates "limited and efficient

government, free enterprise, individual liberty, school choice and sound

science," according to its website.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-about-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>

According

to Greenpeace, "Like other conservative legal foundations, ALF

champions economic free enterprise and limited government including the

protection of property rights. The foundation takes special pride in its

work on property rights. ALF trumpets their 'deep commitment to

redressing the bias against business which manifests itself in favor of

narrow "consumer" or "environmental" concerns' (ALF Annual Report,

1994)."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a>

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<div style="padding: 2px 5px;">Documents

written by or referencing this person or organization are contained in

the Anti-Environmental Archive, launched by Greenpeace on Earth Day,

The archive contains 3,500 documents, some 27,000 pages, covering

350 organizations and individuals. The current archive includes mainly

documents collected in the late 1980s through the early 2000s by The

Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR), an

organization that tracked the rise of the so called "Wise Use" movement

in the 1990s during the Clinton presidency. Access the index to the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/anti-environmental-archives/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Anti-Environmental Archives here</a>.</div>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Ties_to_the_Koch_Brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Ties to the Koch Brothers</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Activities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Activities</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Support_for_Charter_Schools" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Support for Charter Schools</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Cases" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Cases</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Wal-Mart_v.Dukes.282011.29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1Wal-Mart v. Dukes (2011)</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Sancho_v.U.S.Department_of_Energy_.282010.29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2Sancho v. U.S. Department of Energy (2010)</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Red_Bank_Charter_School_.282004.29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.3Red Bank Charter School (2004)</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Carrillo_v.Lockheed_Martin.282003.29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.4Carrillo v. Lockheed Martin (2003)</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Funding</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Core_Financials" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.1Core Financials</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Personnel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Personnel</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Board_of_Directors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.1Board of Directors</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Contact" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Contact</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7References</a></li>

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<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Ties to the Koch Brothers</h2>

The <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Koch brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch brothers</a> -- <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_H.Koch" title="David H. Koch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David</a> and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_G.Koch" title="Charles G. Koch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charles</a> -- are the right-wing billionaire co-owners of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch Industries</a>. As two of the richest people in the world, they are key funders of the right-wing infrastructure, including the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Policy Network</a> (SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on the Kochs include: <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Brothers" title="Koch Brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch Brothers</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch Industries</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Americans for Prosperity</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Encore" title="American Encore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Encore</a>, and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom_Partners" title="Freedom Partners" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Freedom Partners</a>.

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The <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Koch brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch brothers</a>' <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Claude_R._Lambe_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Claude R. Lambe Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Claude R. Lambe Foundation</a> made a $20,000 contribution to ALF in 2002.

ALF

has submitted briefs in a number of cases with other legal foundations

and organizations with ties to the Kochs, including the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mackinac_Center_for_Public_Policy" title="Mackinac Center for Public Policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mackinac Center for Public Policy</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_United" title="Citizens United" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Citizens United</a>, the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Goldwater_Institute" title="Goldwater Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Goldwater Institute</a>, the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cato Institute</a>, and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business" title="National Federation of Independent Business" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Federation of Independent Business</a>.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>

<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Activities</h2>

According to its website, ALF works in four main areas of law:

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">School Choice (support for charter schools)</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sound Science (issues with expert testimony, especially in tort cases)</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Constitutional Issues (free speech, federalism, property rights, etc.)</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Corporate

Governance ("battling intrusive regulations and activist courts while

insisting that corporations make themselves more openly accountable to

customers and shareholders")<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a></li>

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<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Support for Charter Schools</h3>

ALF runs a pro-charter school, anti-union website, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.defendcharterschools.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">defendcharterschools.org</a>,

and an associated program, the Atlantic Legal Foundation's Charter

School Advocacy Program. The website offers "state-focused legal

guides... to educate charter school leaders about what they must know

regarding unionization efforts" as well as pro bono counsel and legal representation for "charter schools and charter school advocates."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a>

Staff of the program are listed as <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Briscoe_R.Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Briscoe R. Smith (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Briscoe R. Smith</a>, Executive Director, and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Martin_S.Kaufman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Martin S. Kaufman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Martin S. Kaufman</a>, Counsel.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a>

<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Cases</h2>

The following were some of the cases highlighted on ALF's website as of June 2014:<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a>

<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Wal-Mart v. Dukes (2011)</h3>

In June 2011, the Supreme Court threw out the case Wal-Mart Stores, Inc v. Dukes et al., which NPR described as "a nationwide class action lawsuit brought against <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wal-Mart" class="mw-redirect" title="Wal-Mart" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wal-Mart</a> on

behalf of 1.5 million female employees." According to NPR, the 5-member

majority argued that "in order to sue as a single class, the women

would have to point to a discriminatory policy that affected all of

them, and they could not do that."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a>

According to the New York Times,

the decision "will almost certainly affect all sorts of other

class-action suits, including ones brought by investors and consumers,

because it tightened the definition of what constituted a common issue

for a class action and said that judges must often consider the merits

of plaintiffs' claims in deciding whether they may proceed as a class."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>

ALF had filed "a friend of the court brief supporting Wal-Mart in the Supreme Court in opposing class certification."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a>

<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Sancho v. U.S. Department of Energy (2010)</h3>

In 2008, Luis Sancho and Walter L. Wagner filed a suit to stop the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=European_Center_for_Nuclear_Research&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="European Center for Nuclear Research (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">European Center for Nuclear Research</a>from proceeding with building the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator. According to the New York Times,

the suit argued that the Hadron Collider was unsafe and "could produce,

among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the

Earth."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> The case was dismissed on procedural grounds in August 2010.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a>

ALF

represented three scientists who supported the defendants in the case

and filed a brief arguing that the appellants' filing "show[ed] a deep

and fundamental misunderstanding of the scientific process, and argue[d]

that the LHC does not present a significant risk to the environment."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a>

<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Red Bank Charter School (2004)</h3>

In

2001, the Red Bank (New Jersey) Charter School petitioned to expand. In

response, the ACLU and the New Jersey Education Association filed a

suit, arguing that expansion would further segregate students and remove

funding from the public school system. The ACLU argued "that the town

cannot take funding away from the public schools in order to create a

safe haven within the system for white students for which they (the

white families) no longer have to pay themselves."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a>

ALF filed a brief in the case "on behalf of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Excellent_Education_for_Everyone&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Excellent Education for Everyone (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Excellent Education for Everyone</a>,

a broadly based school choice advocacy group in New Jersey," according

to its website. In March 2004, the Superior Court of New Jersey approved

the expansion of the charter school. ALF states that the decision

"eliminates many potential road-blocks for New Jersey charters for when

they seek renewal or expansion."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a>

<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Carrillo v. Lockheed Martin (2003)</h3>

In Carrillo v. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lockheed_Martin" title="Lockheed Martin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lockheed Martin</a>,

the California Supreme Court held that the plaintiffs, "a group of

Redlands [Washington] plaintiffs seeking to recover costs of medical

monitoring," were not eligible to be certified as a class.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a> The

plaintiffs had alleged that Lockheed "discharged dangerous chemicals

that contaminated the city’s drinking water with harmful toxins and that

this contaminated water was used by a large portion of the city’s

residents," and sought money from the defendants to fund a medical

monitoring program and for punitive damages.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a>

ALF

filed an amicus brief in the case, arguing that the original ruling

allowing the case to proceed as a class action "was based on profoundly

unsound science [and...] failed to adhere to the established criteria

for class actions."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a>

<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Funding</h2>

Based on data collected by Media Matters, ALF has received funding from a number of right-wing foundations. The <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" title="Sarah Scaife Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a> gave ALF $2,230,000 between 1988 and 2012, and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" title="Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a> gave $70,000 between 2003 and 2010, with an additional $5,000 donation in 1991.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-funders-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a>

ALF has also received funding from <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect" title="ExxonMobil" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ExxonMobil</a>, amounting to $25,000 between 2001 and 2012.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-funders-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a>

<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Core Financials</h3>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Revenue: $443,683</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Expenses: $498,202</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Net Assets: $303, 401</li>

</ul>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Revenue: $662,713</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Expenses: $489,669</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Net Assets: $357,920</li>

</ul>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Revenue: $376,708</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Expenses: $413,425</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Net Assets: $184,876</li>

</ul>

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<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Board of Directors</h3>

As of June 2014:<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-about-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hayward_D._Fisk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hayward D. Fisk (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Hayward D. Fisk</a>, Chairman</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Douglas_Foster&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Douglas Foster (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Douglas Foster</a>, Vice Chairman</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_E._Wood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David E. Wood (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">David E. Wood</a>, Treasurer</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Augustus_I._duPont&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Augustus I. duPont (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Augustus I. duPont</a>, Secretary</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_H._Slattery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William H. Slattery (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">William H. Slattery</a>, President</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tracey_A._Bacigalupo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tracey A. Bacigalupo (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Tracey A. Bacigalupo</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_E._Birsic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas E. Birsic (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Thomas E. Birsic</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marcy_S._Cohen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marcy S. Cohen (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Marcy S. Cohen</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_P._Cook&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William P. Cook (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">William P. Cook</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_S._Frazza&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George S. Frazza (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">George S. Frazza</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donald_M._Gray&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Donald M. Gray (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Donald M. Gray</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_L._Haig&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert L. Haig (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Robert L. Haig</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stephen_J._Harmelin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stephen J. Harmelin (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Stephen J. Harmelin</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_G._Hollingsworth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joe G. Hollingsworth (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Joe G. Hollingsworth</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frank_R._Jimenez" title="Frank R. Jimenez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Frank R. Jimenez</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_E._Juceam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert E. Juceam (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Robert E. Juceam</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edwin_L._Lewis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edwin L. Lewis (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Edwin L. Lewis</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_A_Lonergan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert A Lonergan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Robert A Lonergan</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_H._Menaker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frank H. Menaker (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Frank H. Menaker</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nicolas_Morgan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicolas Morgan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Nicolas Morgan</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregory_J._Morrow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gregory J. Morrow (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Gregory J. Morrow</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ernest_T._Patrikis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ernest T. Patrikis (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Ernest T. Patrikis</a></li>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_R._Sellinger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip R. Sellinger (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Philip R. Sellinger</a></li>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jay_B._Stephens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jay B. Stephens (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Jay B. Stephens</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clifford_B._Storms&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Clifford B. Storms (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Clifford B. Storms</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_R._Work&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles R. Work (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Charles R. Work</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_I._Wyer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James I. Wyer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">James I. Wyer</a>, Chairman emeritus</li>

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stablished in 1977, Atlantic Legal Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_interest" title="Public interest" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">public interest</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_firm" title="Law firm" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">law firm</a> with a history of advocating for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">individual liberty</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_enterprise" class="mw-redirect" title="Free enterprise" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">free enterprise</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Property rights" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">property rights</a>, limited and efficient government, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_science" class="mw-redirect" title="Sound science" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">sound science</a> in the courtroom, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_choice" title="School choice" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">school choice</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a> Atlantic

Legal provides legal representation, without fee, to individuals,

corporations, trade associations, parents, scientists and educators. The

Foundation frequently files <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae" title="Amicus curiae" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">amicus curiae</a> briefs in high-profile court cases before state supreme courts, federal circuit courts, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Supreme Court</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-leadership-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a>

Atlantic

Legal is overseen by a Board of Directors composed of corporate

executives, partners of major law firms, and current and retired

corporate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_legal_officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief legal officer" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">chief legal officers</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-leadership-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a> The Board reviews and decides the cases in which Atlantic Legal will participate.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-metrocorp-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a>The Foundation also has an Advisory Council, which consists of attorneys, scientists, medical doctors, and educators.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-leadership-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Constitutional_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.1Constitutional issues</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#Corporate_Governance" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.3Corporate Governance</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#School_Choice" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.4School Choice</a></li>

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Atlantic

Legal has participated in cases involving a broad range of state and

federal constitutional law issues. The Foundation has filed briefs in

cases concerning free speech, equal protection, due process, federalism,

separation of powers, property rights, and international law.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a> Atlantic Legal filed amicus briefs in such high-profile cases in U.S. Supreme Court as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grutter_v.Bollinger" title="Grutter v. Bollinger" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Grutter v. Bollinger</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratz_v.Bollinger" title="Gratz v. Bollinger" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gratz v. Bollinger</a> (whether affirmative action policies at the University of Michigan were constitutional), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumsfeld_v.FAIR" class="mw-redirect" title="Rumsfeld v. FAIR" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rumsfeld v. FAIR</a> (whether military recruiters could access college campuses), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapanos_v.United_States" title="Rapanos v. United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rapanos v. United States</a> (whether the United States possessed the authority to regulate the dredging of wetlands under the Clean Water Act), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_v.Marion_County_Election_Board" title="Crawford v. Marion County Election Board" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Crawford v. Marion County Election Board</a>(whether Indiana voter ID law was constitutional) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart_v.Dukes" class="mw-redirect" title="Wal-Mart v. Dukes" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wal-Mart v. Dukes</a> (involving class certification for class action lawsuits).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a> In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosby_v._National_Foreign_Trade_Council" title="Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council</a>,

a Supreme Court case involving a state law barring state agencies from

doing business with Myanmar (formerly Burma), Atlantic Legal submitted a

brief on behalf of former President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerald R. Ford" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gerald R. Ford</a> as

well as a group of former Secretaries of State, Defense, Treasury, and

Commerce, former National Security Advisors, former Presidential chiefs

of staff, and senior members of Congress.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[6]</a>

The

Foundation has recently filed briefs in the Supreme Court of the United

States on issues ranging from challenging the constitutionality of the

President's purported recess appointments to the National Labor

Relations Board in the Noel Canning case, to challenging the attempt by plaintiffs in DaimlerChrysler v. Bauman to

bring before U.S. courts a matter involving a foreign corporation and

foreign nationals, and actions that allegedly took place in a foreign

jurisdiction, having no impact on the United States or its citizens.

Congress's treaty power was before the Court in Bond v. United States, where

Atlantic Legal argued that the fundamental structure of the

Constitution defines and limits the powers of the government which

cannot be expanded by the executive or legislative branches. In Mariner's Cove Homeowners' Association v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Foundation urged the Court to grant certiorari in

a "takings" case when the government refused compensation for the loss

of periodic assessments owed to a homeowners' association by property

owners whose parcels were taken by the federal government for a flood

control project. In Harris v. Quinn, Atlantic Legal supported the

plaintiffs' contention that a collective bargaining agreement that

required Medicaid home-care personal assistants to pay a fee for

unwanted union representation violates the First Amendment. In Chamber of Commerce v. EPA, Atlantic Legal urged the Court to overturn the EPA's "greenhouse gas" regulations as violative of procedural due process.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-ReferenceA-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a>

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Atlantic Legal’s sound science program advocates for the admissibility of sound medical and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_witness" title="Expert witness" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">expert testimony</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_tort" title="Toxic tort" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">toxic tort</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_liability" title="Product liability" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">product liability</a> and other types of litigation. Atlantic Legal challenges the admissibility of “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_science" title="Junk science" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">junk science</a>"

in the courtroom and has been recognized as "leading the way in

focusing courts' attention on the need for rigorous scrutiny of

scientific and other expert testimony."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-metrocorp-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a> The Foundation has authored amicus briefs on behalf of distinguished scientists and scholars, including two dozen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Laureates" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Laureates" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Nobel Laureates</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-corporatepolicy.org-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a> By

exposing questionable scientific methods, the Foundation has

"successfully challenged bogus theories of medical causation" in toxic

tort cases involving asbestos and other hazardous substances.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-metrocorp-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a>

In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daubert_v.Merrell_Dow_Pharmaceuticals" class="mw-redirect" title="Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals</a>, a landmark Supreme Court decision that set the evidentiary standards for expert witness testimony, the Court's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majoritarianism" title="Majoritarianism" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">majority opinion</a> specifically cited the Foundation’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae" title="Amicus curiae" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">amicus curiae</a> brief as part of its analysis.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-corporatepolicy.org-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a> Other important Supreme Court cases where Atlantic Legal's legal briefs have affected the outcome include Joiner v. General Electric and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumho_Tire_Co.v._Carmichael" title="Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael</a> (in which the Foundation's amicus brief was also cited), which, in conjunction with Daubert, comprise the so-called "Daubert trilogy" of cases that lay out the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%27%27Daubert%27%27_standard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="''Daubert'' standard (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">''Daubert'' standard</a> for expert witness testimony in federal courts.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-corporatepolicy.org-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a> In

all three cases Atlantic Legal “convinced the high court that the

judiciary should use high standards in determining which scientific

evidence is admissible" and "succeed[ed] in having plaintiff’s

scientific experts deemed unsuitable”.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-corporatepolicy.org-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[10]</a>

Much

of the Foundation's recent efforts in the sound science arena have

involved challenging the theory that exposure to a single fiber of

asbestos can be a "substantial cause" of mesothelioma, efforts that have

been rewarded with favorable decisions in several state courts.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-ReferenceA-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a>

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The

Foundation's corporate governance program was established to advocate

against intrusive regulation of business and to foster <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_governance" title="Corporate governance" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">corporate governance</a>.

Atlantic Legal believes that "corporate accountability is best secured

by the personal choices of customers and investors, not by ineffective

regulators or activist courts."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[11]</a>

Atlantic Legal has challenged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action" title="Class action" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">class action</a> lawsuits against corporations where abuse of procedure may have occurred.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-class_action-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[12]</a> Such cases include Ruben v. Honeywell International and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart_v._Dukes" class="mw-redirect" title="Wal-Mart v. Dukes" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wal-Mart v. Dukes</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[13]</a> where

Atlantic Legal filed briefs in support of Honeywell and Wal-Mart to

ensure that the courts used proper procedure, including respecting due

process rights, in determining the cases.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-class_action-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[12]</a>

The

Foundation was an early proponent of preservation of the

attorney-client privilege against compulsory waiver of that essential

protection where corporate misconduct has been alleged.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-ReferenceA-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a>

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Atlantic

Legal fights to ensure that parents have choices about where to send

their children for schooling. The Foundation's work in this area is

focused on supporting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_schools" class="mw-redirect" title="Charter schools" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">charter schools</a>, including launching a website dedicated to defending charter schools from those seeking to stymie their growth.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[14]</a> A

major part of this effort is publishing a series of state-specific law

guides titled "Leveling the Playing Field," which educate charter school

leaders about how to combat organizing campaigns of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor unions" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">labor unions</a> in their respective jurisdictions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[15]</a>

The

Foundation has also evaluated and proposed reforms to New York’s

charter renewal procedures and has counseled many charter schools that

have faced challenges from those reluctant to change the education

status quo.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[16]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[17]</a>

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Atlantic

Legal regularly publishes papers considering legal issues of public

concern: for example, inadequate judicial compensation and its impact on

the New York economy, the need for a restructuring of New York’s court

system and correcting weaknesses in law school curricula.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[18]</a>

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The

Atlantic Legal Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) foundation that

relies on grants from corporations, private foundations, law firms, and

individuals.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Legal_Foundation#cite_note-guidestar-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[19]</a>

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