TRUE NORTH DEMANDS FULL COMPENSATION DUE LANDOWNERS
The federal government took hundreds of Sarasota landowners’ property to extend the Legacy Trail. But rather than pay these owners that compensation the government admits they are owed, the government filed a motion arguing that the compensation it must pay should be decreased due to the “scope of the trail sponsor’s interest obtained by...
TRUE NORTH LAW FILES LAWSUIT IN MICHIGAN TO PROTECT OPEN AND FAIR ELECTION Oakland County election officials are barring poll challengers from observing the election process
To assure this constitutional guarantee of equal protection and purity of elections, Michigan law provides that poll “challengers” can monitor election officials’ conduct of elections and assure that the election is conducted in accord with Michigan’s Constitution and Election Code. Individuals who have been designated as a “challenger” under...
TRUE NORTH LAW FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST MICHIGAN SECRETARY OF STATE
Michigan elections are not for sale. Out-of-state private interest groups funded by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and others have paid millions of dollars to Michigan election officials in exclusively Democrat precincts and dictated how those jurisdictions will conduct the election. This is a privately-funded get-out-the-vote effort by...
True North Law Files Amicus Brief In US Supreme Court On Behalf Of Property Owner
True North Law filed an amicus curiae (or “friend of the court”) brief in the United States Supreme Court urging the Court to review the case of a Hawaii property owner who was prohibited from developing its land by the State of Hawaii. True North filed its brief on behalf of four prestigious national property rights organizations and an esteemed property law scholar: Owners’ Counsel of America, the National Association of Reversionary Property Owners, NFIB Small Business Legal Center, Reason Foundation, and Law Professor Shelley Ross Saxer.
Sarasota Landowners Ask Federal Judge to Stop Removal of Private Property within Legacy Trail Right-of-way
Judge Schedules Hearing for Thursday August 13th Sarasota County has demanded that hundreds of landowners who own property abutting the Legacy Trail’s proposed northern extension remove all structures – such as fences, sheds, patios, decks, and swimming pools – from the Legacy Trial right-of-way, even though those structures have existed for...
Big Win for Landowner in Case Where True North Law Filed Influential Amicus Brief
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Caquelin v. United States recently ruled unanimously in favor of an Iowa landowner whose property was taken by the federal government under the Trails Act for a public recreational rail-trail. Lawyers for the federal government argued the government was not required to pay Ms....
Sarasota Landowners Ask Court to Enjoin Removal of “Encroachments”
In conjunction with the recently-filed lawsuit asking the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida to stop Sarasota County from removing “encroachments” from the Legacy Trail right-of-way, Thor Hearne and True North Law filed a motion for preliminary injunction to bring this to the court’s immediate attention. The motion asks the...
True North Law Files Federal Lawsuit on behalf of landowners to stop Sarasota County from removing Legacy Trail “Encroachments”
Thor Hearne and True North Law have filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida to stop Sarasota County from removing what the county calls “encroachments” on the Legacy Trail corridor. The lawsuit asks the judge to enter a temporary restraining order and injunction against Sarasota County to stop the...
Bloomberg Law article on the Court of Appeals Decision
The owners of land adjacent to a former railroad line converted to a hiking trail under the rails-to-trails program will have another chance to pursue takings claims after the Federal Circuit said the government failed to prove that the landowners didn’t own the property beneath the rail line. A Florida-law doctrine known as the “centerline...
True North Wins Significant Victory for Landowners in the Federal Circuit
True North represents Miami, Florida landowners whose property the Federal government took under the federal Trails Act. The federal Trails Act imposes a new easement for public recreation and a future possible railroad across landowners’ property. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that when the federal government invokes the Trails...
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At today's @ALI_CLE eminent domain seminar, Michael Berger discusses his US Supreme Court case, Bridge Aina Le'a v Hawaii. Read our amicus brief urging SCOTUS to hear the case at: https://truenorthlawgroup.com/true-north-law-files-amicus-brief-in-us-supreme-court-on-behalf-of-property-owner/ @invcondemnation @OwnersCounsel @NFIB @KarenHarned @reason
We're registered & looking forward to it! @invcondemnation: "Your 2021 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference (Jan 28-29, Remote) BINGO Card" https://shar.es/ao4BSL @ALI_CLE
Thanks to @invcondemnation for the excellent breakdown of the briefing in Cedar Point Nursery. "No Shortage of Amicus Briefs in SCOTUS Physical Invasion Takings Case" https://shar.es/ao4WvA
Superb conference; great opportunity for students to attend for free. @invcondemnation: Law Students: Register Free for the 38th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference (Jan 28-29, 2021) https://shar.es/aoh39d
State of Hawaii files brief in opposition in important taking case being considered by US Supreme Court. We filed an amicus brief in support of the landowner's cert. petition. @invcondemnation: https://shar.es/aoWSFa
