Washington Legal Foundation

[1][2][3] WLF addresses a range of legal matters, including commercial free speech, corporate criminal liability, environmental regulation, food and drug law, health care, and intellectual property through three primary functions.

Its first functions as a public interest law firm that brings original lawsuits, files amicus briefs, intervenes in court cases, and petitions agencies for rulings.

[4] It also works as a legal think tank that publishes in seven different formats once every two weeks[citation needed], and it is a non-profit communications company that hosts regular conferences, media briefings, and national educational advertising campaigns.

This case held that the Federal Advisory Committee Act did not apply to U.S. Justice Department's solicitation of the American Bar Association’s views on prospective judicial nominees.

In Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the Washington Legal Foundation filed a brief that argued that certain provisions of the PATRIOT Act do not violate the First Amendment.

The statute makes it a crime to give any form of aid, including humanitarian assistance, to groups on the U.S. State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.

The Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Washington Legal Foundation. The building on the left served as the residence of Alice Roosevelt Longworth for over 70 years; the building in the center was designed by Jules Henri de Sibour in 1901 for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Horace A. Taylor.