Mountain States Legal Foundation ( MSLF ) is a nonprofit law firm dedicated to individual liberty, the right to own and use property, limited and ethical government, and economic freedom.

MSLF is a nonprofit organization under Section 501 ( c )( 3 ) of the Internal Revenue Code ; therefore, contributions to MSLF qualify for a charitable tax deduction.

MSLF is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, which also approves all legal actions taken by MSLF, and assisted in the selection of its litigation by a volunteer Board of Litigation.

It is American .” MSLF has continued its litigation regarding affirmative action, reverse discrimination, and racial quotas and preferences, and also has litigated regarding the Voting Rights Act.

MSLF was incorporated in Colorado in 1977 by western business leaders concerned that advocates for constitutional liberties, property rights, and economic activity were not present during important legal battles.

MSLF does not charge for its legal services on behalf of individuals, entities, trade associations, and units of local government, but instead provides representation to its clients pro bono in cases that involve important public policy issues that go beyond the interests of the parties in the litigation.

In addition to its direct representation of MSLF, its members, and its clients, MSLF also files amicus curiae ( friend of the court ) briefs on its behalf.

In its litigation, MSLF seeks to establish binding legal precedents that will benefit all Americans by preserving constitutional liberties and the rule of law.

MSLF employs a full-time staff, which includes attorneys who conduct all of the litigation in which MSLF engages.

MSLF educates the public regarding its litigation by way of its quarterly newsletter, The Litigator, a quarterly Action Update, which addresses topical legal issues, and its website at www. mountainstateslegal. org.

Since its creation, MSLF has appeared frequently before the Supreme Court of the United States and numerous federal courts of appeals.

MSLF ’ s best known litigation involved the Constitution's equal protection guarantee, which resulted in a 1995 landmark ruling that Time Magazine called “ a legal earthquake .” In Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, Justice Scalia wrote, “ In the eyes of government, we are just one race here.

In addition, MSLF has litigated regarding property rights and has been preeminent regarding issues of concerns to westerners, including the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, especially regarding “ wetlands ,” the National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ), the National Forest Management Act, the Antiquities Act, the Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act, and the General Mining Law and bars on and restrictions regarding the ability to develop natural resources such as energy and minerals and forest and agricultural products.

MSLF has drawn praise from President Ronald Reagan and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

From 1979 until 1999, London Central was the host to the Module scolaire de langue française ( MSLF )-the first public French first language high school in London, Ont.

Before the 1998-1999 school year, the MSLF became École secondaire Gabriel-Dumont and it moved into a new Le Centre Desloges ( CDL ) for the start of the 1999-2000 school year.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Promoters always hastened to place their choice tickets in the hands of the wealthy speculators, and only the man who knew the man who knew the fellow who had an in with the guy at the box office ever came up with a good seat for a contest of any importance.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

Barnett, who came into office with no previous experience in public administration, has surrounded himself with confusion which not only keeps his foes guessing but his friends as well.

In the office you might have thought them only casual friends ; ;

The age limit, the same as that for office holders but ten years older than that required for participation in the assembly, gave the courts a certain standing in relation to the assembly ; for the Athenians of the court were not only older, but were wiser, too.

Unlike officeholders, the citizen initiator was not vetted before taking up office or automatically reviewed after stepping down — it had after all no set tenure and might be an action lasting only a moment.

This was almost inevitable since, with the notable exception of the generals ( strategoi ), each office could be held by the same person only once.

The system was slow by today's standards, but at the time the additional cost and complexity of networking on PC machines was such that it was common that Macs were the only networked personal computers in an office.

Since this office was a stepping stone to higher office and the Senate, it helped to ensure that only wealthy individuals ( mostly landowners ) would win election to high office.

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim enjoyed his office for only a single day, for Abd ar-Rahman soon discovered his collusion with the rebel governor of Carmona.

" This language means that the appointments are effectively for life, ending only when a Justice dies in office, retires, or is removed from office following impeachment by the House of Representatives and conviction by the Senate.

The town had the curious distinction of having the only unemployment benefit office in Britain with the insignia of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom above the door, until the building was closed and redeveloped as housing, but the insignia was retained.

The film earned over $ 60 million at the domestic box office, a strong return for a film that cost only $ 5 million to produce.

The license in favour of BVI Cable was controversial, as the Regulator had announced in advance that only three licenses in total would be issued, and BVI Cable TV had crumbling cable television infrastructure, and was in no position to office cellular telephone services ( and to date, has not offered any cellular telephone services, or anything other than simple cable television ).

This does not mean that the episcopate, in the sense of the holder of the order or office of bishop, must have developed only later, or have been plural, because in each church the college or presbyter-overseers ( also called " presbyter-bishops ") did not exercise an independent supreme power ; it was subject to the Apostles or to their delegates.

The Breviary rightly so called, however, only dates from the 11th century ; the earliest MS. containing the whole canonical office is of the year 1099 and is in the Mazarin library.

This contains the office of the seasons of the Christian year ( Advent to Trinity ), a conception that only gradually grew up.

It has already been indicated, by reference to Matins, Lauds, & c., that not only each day, but each part of the day, has its own office, the day being divided into liturgical " hours.

In addition, this type of printer is only available from one manufacturer, Xerox, manufactured as part of their Xerox Phaser office printer line.

Consuls also exercised the highest juridical power in the Republic, being the only office with the power to override the decisions of the Praetor Urbanus.

This was the only office in the Roman Republic whose term was a period of eighteen months instead of the usual twelve.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in.