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
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...
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 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 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.
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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Sarasota landowners represented by @FederalTakings ask court to hold government liable for taking their land in violation of the 5th Amendment. https://truenorthlawgroup.com/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/ @invcondemnation
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