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A closely watched court case concerning front-yard gardens in Miami Shores, Florida, has finally received a court hearing, and the city’s attorney showed no signs of backing down. Circuit Judge Monica Gordo heard a challenge June 8 to the Miami ...

A judge will hear a case this month to determine if a Florida couple can grow vegetables in their own yard. Hermine Ricketts and Tom Carroll are the couple who had to rip out a garden they had grown for ...

A federal appeals court has struck a major blow against forfeiture and government overreach by ruling that simply having a large amount of cash is not a crime. The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ordered Chicago police ...

A Minnesota city is asking a court for a warrant to enter a rental home in order to check to see if the place is clean. If the city wins the case, then inspectors apparently would be able to enter ...

Packed with calories and nutrition and able to be packed and stored for long periods, pemmican is often called the ultimate survival food. Created by Native Americans and adopted by European explorers of the New World, pemmican is a concentrated ...

Not mowing the lawn regularly, having a missing shingle, and even failing to put curtains or screens on windows can lead to thousands of dollars in fines in some communities – and even jail if fines aren’t paid. Pagedale, Missouri, ...

A Michigan court case could set what some say is a troubling precedent by mandating that four children be vaccinated for measles against their parents’ wishes. Attorney H. Elliot Parnes has petitioned Oakland County Circuit Judge Lisa Langton to order ...

The Connecticut Supreme Court has forced a 17-year old girl to receive chemotherapy she did not want. A lower court already had stripped the girl’s mother of custody and ordered the young woman taken out of her home. The girl, ...

A Pennsylvania court has ruled that a man cannot challenge a $280,722 tax bill, even though tax officials admit the information on the bill is fictional. Nathan Lerner, who relies on Social Security to pay his bills, received a “jeopardy ...

The seemingly endless battle over drinking raw milk may be heading to Canada’s Supreme Court. In what could result in a landmark decision, Ontario farmer Michael Schmidt has decided to appeal a conviction for selling raw milk. “Our plan is ...