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...
Major Win in the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
In a unanimous panel opinion, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in our favor that a property owner is qualified to testify at trial regarding the value of her property, including severance damages, when a natural gas pipeline company took her property by eminent domain. Even though it is a long-established rule of evidence that property...
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Check out this @WSJ op-ed by @capitalresearch president Scott Walter, citing our lawsuit against Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson. "Liberal critics of 'dark money' won’t tell you about the Arabella Advisors empire that skirts financial disclosure requirements" https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-lefts-web-of-dark-money-11603408114
We filed a lawsuit in Michigan regarding these grants by the Center for Tech & Civic Life. @stltoday: "St. Louis, St. Louis County get big election grants from national nonprofit" https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/st-louis-st-louis-county-get-big-election-grants-from-national-nonprofit/article_7e0ee9f0-50d7-5685-86d2-984f2ba7f4f5.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share
Our lawsuit is getting attention. @detroitnews: "Benson accused of letting 'partisan operatives' influence election" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/06/suit-alleges-benson-allowed-partisan-operatives-influence-nov-3-race/3630702001/
BREAKING: see True North Law's lawsuit just filed on behalf of Michigan voters & Thomas More Society regarding Zuckerberg money paid to election authorities in only urban, predominantly Democratic areas in order to influence election. https://truenorthlawgroup.com/true-north-law-files-lawsuit-against-michigan-secretary-of-state/
Federal court in NY rules governor's pandemic executive order not a regulatory taking under either Penn Central or Lucas. Thanks to @invcondemnation for the analysis: https://www.inversecondemnation.com/inversecondemnation/2020/09/ny-fed-ct-when-faced-with-a-society-threatening-epidemic-state-officials-are-empowered-to-infringe-f.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+inversecondemnationcom+%28inversecondemnation%29
