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  <Name>About Us</Name>
  <Description>We protect economic liberty, private property rights, free speech, and other fundamental rights through strategic public-interest litigation.</Description>
  <OtherInformation>This StratML rendition has been inferred by ChatGPT from the Liberty Justice Center&apos;s About, Janus, and tariff litigation pages. Goals, objectives, values, and stakeholder relationships have been inferred from the organization&apos;s stated mission, litigation strategy, representative cases, and descriptions of its constitutional priorities.
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      <Description>A nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-interest litigation firm seeking to protect economic liberty, private property rights, free speech, and other fundamental rights.</Description>
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      <OtherInformation>The Liberty Justice Center pursues strategic litigation to protect individual constitutional rights. Its landmark victory in Janus v. AFSCME established that public employees cannot be compelled to subsidize union speech with which they disagree, reinforcing First Amendment protections for millions of workers.</OtherInformation>
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      <OtherInformation>The organization seeks to revitalize constitutional restraints on government power through strategic litigation capable of establishing legal precedents affecting public policy nationwide. Recent tariff litigation reflects concerns regarding separation of powers and the proper constitutional allocation of governmental authority.</OtherInformation>
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      <OtherInformation>The Liberty Justice Center represents clients without charging legal fees and relies upon voluntary support rather than government funding. Its litigation strategy seeks to achieve broad public impact through carefully selected cases.</OtherInformation>
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        <Description>Provide legal representation without charge to clients whose cases advance constitutional liberty.</Description>
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  <AdministrativeInformation>
    <PublicationDate>2026-06-16</PublicationDate>
    <Source>https://libertyjusticecenter.org/about/</Source>
    <Submitter>
      <GivenName>Owen</GivenName>
      <Surname>Ambur</Surname>
      <EmailAddress>Owen.Ambur@verizon.net</EmailAddress>
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