Born and raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming, William Perry Pendley received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics and Political Science from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps, after which he received his J.D. from the University of Wyoming College of Law, where he was Senior Editor on Land and Water Law Review. He served as an attorney to former Senator Clifford P. Hansen (R-Wyoming) and to the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. During the Reagan Administration, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Minerals of the Department of Interior, where he authored President Reagan's National Minerals Policy and Exclusive Economic Zone proclamation. He was a consultant to former Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman, Jr., and was engaged in the private practice of law in the Washington, D.C., area before his return to the West in 1989. He is admitted to practice law in Wyoming, Colorado, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. Pendley is now President and Chief Legal Officer at the Mountain States Legal Foundation. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Arizona Snowbowl is an alpine ski area, seven miles north of Flagstaff, which occupies 777 acres on Humphrey's Peak, amid the San Francisco Peaks in the Coconino National Forest. Organized skiing has existed there... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2008/09/01/ninth_circuit_gets_it_right_no_indian_religious_veto b08c5fe2-f38e-427b-8707-e7fb1f396410 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT In 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld the ability of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to award broadcast licenses based on race. The decision, in Metro Broadcasting v. Federal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2008/08/03/earth_to_fcc_what_part_of_unconstitutional_is_unclear 0379d325-0997-4690-8738-53bd5149eabd Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT On October 1, 2008, a 25-year ban on drilling in federal waters (the Outer Continental Shelf) will expire, not with a bang but a whimper, as congressional opponents to drilling for oil on American soil admit that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2008/08/01/paralysis_and_analysis_in_the_search_for_energy_in_michigan 615f6080-c648-4353-86ee-554ca1a8b7cf Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Steven Spielberg's 1998 Academy Award® winning epic, Saving Private Ryan, about the search for and safe return to his family of the sole-surviving Ryan brother, was based, in part, upon the true story of Fritz... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2008/07/01/this_fourth_of_july_earn_it! cf9aa623-e825-40aa-8750-836607649e01 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:59:10 GMT In 1991, at a cost of $70 million, a group of miners and mining entities known collectively as Seven Up Pete Venture acquired mineral rights on land, near Lincoln, Montana, believed to contain over four million ounces... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2008/06/01/ninth_circuit_outrage_states_immune_from_fifth_amendment! 7cb17210-e31f-4108-99c7-f03f8671763e Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT On March 18, Senator Barack Obama urged what the media labeled a "national dialogue on race." One week later, Colorado's Secretary of State approved a ballot initiative to permit Colorado voters to participate, along... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2008/05/01/states_decade-old_dialogue_on_race_dooms_quotas 8290bae6-c0bd-44e5-824d-4a0a603476e4 Thu, 01 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Last year, a senior at Roswell (New Mexico) High School was ticketed for blocking a fire lane outside a middle school and for driving without a license. When the Roswell police officer who stopped her discovered that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2008/04/01/free_school_for_illegals_time_for_a_supreme_court_review 29ab859d-3c22-4557-afd3-be540582bde8 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT For years, Plains Commerce Bank made operating loans to the Long Family Land & Cattle Company, which is 51 percent owned by members of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in northern... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2008/03/01/judging_civil_liability_using_values,_mores,_and_norms f7cd4f18-56d5-43f0-82f6-ec8cec8302b4 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:01:00 GMT In 1989, John Shuler of rural Dupuyer, Montana, heard grizzly bears outside his house; fearing they would kill his sheep, he grabbed his rifle and ran into the night. The good news is he survived his encounter with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2008/02/04/the_west,_washington,_dc,_and_weapons d916ce6c-62e1-4141-886e-9c6174e41d16 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:02:15 GMT When radical law school professors and administrators created the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) to permit them to sue then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld anonymously to challenge the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2007/12/31/feds_give_radical_colleges_get_out_of_jail_free_card e759ba98-dfc2-4083-9ced-b383f507b39e Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:44:05 GMT This month, the entire U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments in its reconsideration of a three-judge panel's ruling in favor of American Indian religious practitioners. On March 12, 2007, in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2007/11/30/american_indians_given_veto_power_over_federal_land a6fab9ec-c66d-4f82-be98-1f9e6ae1d29a Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:54:09 GMT In 1982, Emil Vassileu-born in Pernik, Bulgaria-arrived legally in the United States, a political refugee from Bulgaria's Communist regime. Because he was a top student, he studied at university; but, there was "no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2007/11/05/california_repeals_supreme_court_immigration_ruling f7636e87-475b-49a0-a8bc-b1ab19acbe62 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:04:56 GMT In the mid-1980s, environmental groups challenged oil and gas leasing proposals by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Forest Service along the Overthrust Belt in Montana and Wyoming. They argued that the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2007/10/04/deja_vu_feds_abandon_another_chance_to_narrow_nepa e75bf208-1902-4691-92bd-5f2781b758f1 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:35:33 GMT In 2004, within four months of each other, two three-judge panels of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided cases involving the Constitution's Establishment Clause and its requirement of government... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2007/09/08/summary_judgment 2d589162-f60b-4cc9-a688-5d94580135c9 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:02:05 GMT On April 5, 2005, the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) hosted a job fair for students seeking to learn about post-graduate employment opportunities. Along with representatives of 60 companies such as... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamPerryPendley/2007/08/01/defense_department_denizens_coddle_california_college c3fd7697-c0e6-425d-ab1e-7db9b31e1796 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:00:40 GMT