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→7) Litigation: edit re: Freedom Foundation
Several SPN members have created "litigation centers." [[Clint Bolick]], who runs Goldwater's litigation center, told the ''National Review'', "We realized that on some issues we needed to go to court or we wouldn't be able to change anything." (Goldwater is just one of the right-wing enterprises Bolick has aided. He defended the Thompson-backed school voucher program when he was with the Landmark Legal Foundation, co-founded the "Institute for Justice," and previously led the "Alliance for School Choice.")<ref name="NR"/>
Goldman was the first of the SPN member think tanks to open a litigation center as a permanent part of its organization.<ref name="NR"/> But as of 2012, MinnesotaWashington State's [[Freedom Foundation]]<ref>Freedom Foundation, [http://www.myfreedomfoundation.com/index.php/about/ About], organizational website, accessed September 2012.</ref> and the [[Nevada Policy Research Institute]] also have litigation programs,<ref name="SPN News 2012"/><ref>Phillip O'Connor, [http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/st-louis-couple-fight-government-with-advocacy-center/article_87033fc1-42cc-5e36-ad87-53e3770cebfc.html St. Louis Couple Fight Government with Advocacy Center], ''St. Louis Post Dispatch'', August 2, 2011.</ref> as do some of its [[SPN Members#Associate members|associate members]], like the North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law.<ref>North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law, [http://www.ncicl.org/about About], organizational website, accessed September 2012.</ref>
Delaware’s Caesar Rodney Institute launched a special fundraising campaign at the beginning of 2012 to pay for a lawsuit against the state of Delaware to challenge its practice of awarding state construction jobs only to contractors paying union scale wages, charging that the methodology used to figure out the prevailing wage rates was flawed. When legislation drafted by the think tank to address the perceived issue failed at the committee level, the group told SPN that it would take to the courts.<ref name="SPN News 2012"/>
