Pacific Legal Foundation
Amicus Curiae
Sharon L. Browne, Counsel of RecordPacific Legal Foundation is a nonprofit public interest law firm formed in 1973 to defend individual and economic freedoms and support limited government. Sharon L. Browne is a principal in the foundation’s individual rights practice group. She is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Pacific. From 1991 to 1995, she specialized in land use and education law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on November 10, 1998.The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 expressly provides block grants to States…
