Another group of landowners on the Legacy Trail have filed a lawsuit
Another group of landowners on the Sawyer Road to Ashton Road segment of the Legacy Trail have filed a lawsuit for compensation for their property. I filed this lawsuit last month and the case was assigned to Judge Meyers. A copy of the lawsuit (which also provides a helpful background and the more recent developments with Sarasota County) is...
Sarasota landowners affected by Legacy Trail up-in-arms about government’s taking and treatment of their property
As described in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s front-page story, Sarasota residents living along the Legacy Trail are enduring painful and unnecessary hardships due to the federal government’s taking of their land and the county’s construction of the Legacy Trail. Thor Hearne and True North Law represent hundreds of these affected landowners, and...
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...
Sarasota FL – Legacy Trail Easement
This lawsuit is a Fifth Amendment taking case in which Sarasota County Florida landowners ask this Court to order the federal government to pay them for property the federal government took from them. The government took these owners’ land for the northern extension of the Legacy Trail between Sarasota and Venice. The Legacy Trail is a public...
St. Bernard Parish Gov v. United States
Amicus Brief (U.S. Supreme Court) We represented amici curiae NFIB Small Business Legal Center, Reason Foundation, Southeastern Legal Foundation, National Association of Reversionary Property Owners, Property Rights Foundation of America, and Professor James W. Ely, Jr., in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme...
Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer
Amicus Brief (U.S. Supreme Court), 137 S.Ct. 2012 (2017) We served as counsel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and in the U.S. Supreme Court for the National Association of Evangelicals as an amicus party in this First Amendment religious freedom case. The case challenged the Missouri state constitution’s “Blaine Amendment,”...
Shoemaker v. Kander
(Missouri Supreme Court), 464 S.W.3d 171 (Mo. 2015). Thor successfully represented Missouri Farmers Care, a coalition of agricultural groups, in defense of Missouri Constitutional Amendment 1, the “Right to Farm Amendment” in a statewide recount and state supreme court election contest.
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True North Law has filed an amicus brief on behalf of Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft in the Biden Administration's lawsuit against the State of Texas. https://www.sos.mo.gov/default.aspx?PageId=10140
Happy birthday @invcondemnation! You have been the gold standard and our lodestar blog for 15 years! Please keep it coming! https://www.inversecondemnation.com/inversecondemnation/2021/08/the-way-we-are-entering-our-sixteenth-year.html
http://inversecondemnation.com: Cedar Point Part I: SCOTUS's Strawberry Letter 23 To Property Rights https://shar.es/aW3qxB
Congrats to the team at @PacificLegal for the tremendous victory for property rights in today's Cedar Point Nursery SCOTUS decision. @invcondemnation: "Well, you really can say "Keep Out" in California (Cedar Point - A per se taking)" https://shar.es/aWXQn8
Looking forward to it! @invcondemnation: Mark Your Calendars: 2021 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, Sept 30-Oct 1 (in-person) https://shar.es/aoLfaN
