by admin | Mar 15, 2023 | Appellate Litigation, Constitutional Law, Property Rights
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied the Department of Justice’s petition for rehearing en banc in a Trails Act case brought by Indiana landowners. True North Law filed two amicus briefs supporting the landowners on behalf of four property-rights...
by admin | Feb 6, 2023 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
On February 3rd, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in favor of the property owners – the Thomas family – in Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC v. 18.27 Acres of Land in Levy County, et al. (Sabal Trail v. Thomas Family). The court’s ruling was a...
by admin | Dec 5, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
True North Law filed a lawsuit on behalf of landowners whose property the federal government took for the Great Redwood Trail. The lawsuit was filed in the United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington DC. The lawsuit is available here. The complaint provides...
by admin | Nov 29, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
On November 30, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Wilkins v. United States, a lawsuit brought by private property owners in Montana against the federal government. True North Law’s Steve Davis breaks down the case in this article published in the American...
by admin | Nov 7, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
True North Law represents hundreds of Sarasota, Florida, landowners in three lawsuits filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. In the most recently-filed lawsuit, Barron, et al. v. United States, Thor Hearne has filed a comprehensive motion for summary judgment...
by admin | Nov 7, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
This week, the Federal Circuit held oral argument in the appeal of an important Fifth Amendment taking case where the federal government took private landowners’ property in Missouri for a public recreational rail-trail. The lower court erroneously held that, even...
