True North Law’s Steve Davis Featured in Missouri Lawyers Weekly
Oct 5, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Election Reform
Steve Davis, a partner with True North Law, was a featured speaker at the Missouri Bar’s Annual Meeting and Judicial Conference in Springfield, Missouri, as highlighted by Missouri Lawyers Weekly. The Bar asked Steve to address Missouri’s new election reform legislation and other election litigation issues. Before joining True North, Steve...
True North Law Files U.S. Supreme Court Brief in Support of Louisiana Landowners
Sep 8, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
True North’s amicus brief asks the Court to take up and overturn the decision of the Fifth Circuit, which wrongly held the government doesn’t need to compensate landowners unless and until the legislature appropriates the compensation. True North Law filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf property rights advocacy groups,...
After Trial, Court Issues Sweeping Ruling in Favor of Georgia Landowners Represented by Thor Hearne
Sep 6, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
Following a trial in Atlanta, Georgia, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims has issued its decision awarding the plaintiff-landowners the full value of their property taken by the federal government for the creation of a recreational rail-trail across their properties. “This is a sweeping win and total vindication for these landowners,” said Thor...
Thor Hearne argues in the 11th Circuit for Florida farmer whose land was taken by a natural gas pipeline company
Sep 6, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
Federal appeal stems from pipeline company’s refusal to fully compensate the landowner under Florida law, including payment of attorney fees. In Sabal Trail Transmission v. 18.27 Acres, the pipeline company only offered to pay the Thomas family a fraction of the value of the property that a jury later determined the Thomas family’s property was...
Sarasota Landowners Represented by Thor Hearne and True North Law File Motion Asking Court to Hold the Government Liable for Taking Property for the Sarasota Legacy Trail
Apr 29, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
About 200 Sarasota landowners whose property was taken for the development of the northern extension of the Legacy Trail public recreational rail-trail filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims asking the court to hold the federal government liable for taking their land without paying them compensation. The motion was filed by Thor...
True North Law Files Amicus Brief on behalf of Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft in DOJ Lawsuit Against Texas
Apr 28, 2022 | Constitutional Law
Thor Hearne, Steve Davis, and True North Law have filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft in United States v. State of Texas, the federal lawsuit brought by the Biden Administration against the State of Texas regarding Texas’ new election law statute. A copy of the amicus brief is available here....
Another group of landowners on the Legacy Trail have filed a lawsuit
Dec 6, 2021 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
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
Dec 6, 2021 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
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 DEMANDS FULL COMPENSATION DUE LANDOWNERS
Feb 24, 2021 | Property Rights
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
Nov 2, 2020 | Constitutional Law
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...
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