Experience

Rating: 9.2 (Superb)

Honors

2009

McFarland Award, Citizens' Alliance for Property Rights

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Work Experience

2006 - Present

Principal Attorney/Managing Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation

2003 - 2006

Associate Attorney, Lybeck Murphy, LLP

2001 - 2003

Judicial Clerk, Washington State Court of Appeals, Division I

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Associations

Washington State Bar Association

Member

King County Bar Association

Member

2003 - 2004

Washington State Bar Association

At Large Member

2002 - 2004

Public Education

Chairman

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Sample of Legal Cases

Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Mgmt. Distr.

Victory at US Supreme Court

Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States

Victory at U.S. Supreme Court

Leu v. International Boundary Commission

Positive decision of the Ninth Circuit

Coeur Alaska Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council

Positive decision of US Supreme Court

Citizens’ Alliance for Property Rights v. Sims

Victory at Washington state court of appeals

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Education

2001

Seattle University School of Law

JD - Juris Doctor

1998

University of Washington

MA - Masters

1996

University of Washington

BA - Bachelor of Arts

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Speaking Engagements

2013

Washington Association of Municipal Attorneys Annual Meeting

The Koontz Case: Implications in Washington State

2013

Growth Management Act

Non-Conforming Uses, Vested Rights, and Regulatory Takings Cases With Implications for Washington’s Growth Management Act

2013

Federalist Society chapter

Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District: How the Recent U.S. Supreme Court Takings Ruling Will Impact You

2013

Building Industry Ass’n of Wash. Annual Conference

Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District: Implications for Washington Builders

2012

Shoreline Management & Permitting

Existing Development: Resolving Issues Relating to Setbacks, Buffers and Vegetation

2012

Regulatory Takings

The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine: A Reexamination of the Doctrine’s Application to Regulatory Takings

2012

Regulatory Takings

Revisiting Temporary Takings: Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States

2011

Shoreline Master Program Updates

Mitigation, Enhancement, and Restoration: How Far is Too Far?

2011

Regulatory Takings

Incentive Zoning and TDRs: Takings or Giveaways?

2010

Family Forest Conference

Introduction to Regulatory Takings, Forest & Fish Rules and the Law: Takings Impacts on Small Forest Landowners

2010

Citizens’ Alliance for Property Rights Shorelines Workshop

The Changing Regulatory Environment of Shoreline Critical Areas – the SMA, GMA, Futurewise, and the Future

2010

CAPR Shorelines Workshop

The Changing Regulatory Environment of Shoreline Critical Areas – the SMA, GMA, Futurewise, and the Future

2010

American Farm Bureau Leadership Conference

Current Cases Affecting Farmers

2009

Preserving the American Dream Conference

Securing Property Rights in Rural Areas

2009

Hot Topics in Land Use and Environmental Law

Citizens’ Alliance for Property Rights v. Sims – The Impact of RCW 82.02.020 on All Things Land Use

2009

Hot Topics in Land Use and Environmental Law

Citizens’ Alliance for Property Rights v. Sims – The Impact of RCW 82.02.020 on All Things Land Use

2008

Environmental Law Updates

What Does the Future Hold for King County’s Critical Area Ordinance after Citizens’

2008

Annual Growth Management Act Conference

The Implications of Citizens’ Alliance for Property Rights v. Sims on Development Regulations,

2007

Washington Farm Bureau Annual Conference

Designating and Protecting Critical Areas Under the Growth Management Act After Swinomish Indian Tribal Community v. Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board

2007

Growth Management Act

Policy Priorities for the Growth Management Act: Protecting Property Rights

1998

Dangerous Liaisons: Politics, Culture, Academia

Reconceptualizing Regions: the Role of Rhetoric in the Creation of the Oresund Region

1998

88th annual Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies conference

Reconceptualizing Regions: The Fixed Link at Oresund and the Restructuring of Malmo-Lund

1997

87th annual SASS conference

Bödeln, Lagerkvist, and a German Whistle Concert

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Publications

2015

Jurist Horne v. Department of Agriculture: California Raisin Farmers Strike Blows for Property Rights and Limited Government

2015

Engage Horne v. Department of Agriculture: The Takings Clause and the Administrative State

2015

San Francisco Daily Journal Ruling a Win for Property Rights, Limited Government

2015

San Francisco Daily Journal Outdated Law Tested in Raisin Case

2014

Vermont Law Review (forthcoming) When the Common Law Runs Into the Constitution: The Train Wreck Avoided in Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States

2014

Jurist Brandt v. United States: Will Property Law Doom Rail Trails?

2014

41 B.C. Envt'l Affairs L. Rev 365 Will Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States Provide a Permanent Fix for Temporary Takings?

2013

Jurist Brandt v. US: Should the Common Law of Property be Scrapped?

2013

65(3) Planning & Environmental Law Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States: U.S. Supreme Court Disapproves of Per Se Defenses in Takings Cases

2013

Federalist Society Engage v 14(1) Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District and Its Implications for Takings Law

2013

MRSC Washington The Koontz Case: Implications in Washington State

2013

Building Insight Can government force you to pay for your rights?

2013

Federalist Society Engage v14(1) Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States: a Temporary Fix for Temporary Takings?

2013

Building Insight U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting exactions will have big impacts in the Pacific Northwest

2011

PLF White Paper Protecting Property Rights Under Washington’s Growth Management Act

2010

Environmental Law Have Washington Courts Lost Essential Nexus to the Precautionary Principle? Citizens’ Alliance for Property Rights v. Sims

2001

Georgetown International Environmental Law Review The Grass is Always Greener: Foreign Investor Actions Against Environmental Regulations Under NAFTA’s Chapter 11, S.D. Myers v. Canada

2000

Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation The Cracking Facade of the International Whaling Commission as an Institution of International Law: Norwegian Small-Type Whaling and the Aboriginal Subsistence Exemption

1998

Thesis, University of Washington Reconceptualizing Regions: The Fixed link at Oresund and the Restructuring of Identity in Malmo-Lund

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Languages

Swedish

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