The Community Rights Counsel was an American non-profit, public interest law firm formed in 1997 by the late Doug Kendall.
The organization's legal work focused on the intersection of environmental and constitutional law, filing frequent amicus briefs in cases defending governmental action against claims of "regulatory takings."
The group promoted judicial ethics, exposing the practice of judges attending junkets sponsored by right wing think tanks that espoused free market anti-regulatory philosophies.
[1] Their findings were published in two reports, Nothing for Free: How Private Judicial Seminars Are Undermining Environmental Protections and Breaking the Public's Trust (July 2000), and Tainted Justice: How Private Judicial Trips Undermine Public Trust in the Federal Judiciary (March 2004).
[2] A version of Tainted Justice was published in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 18:65-134.