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Judge Rules Town Can Ban Vegetable Gardens Because They’re Ugly

Judge Rules Town Can Ban Vegetable Gardens Because They’re Ugly

  MIAMI – In a blow to freedom and property rights, a Florida judge has ruled that residents of Miami Shores do not have a fundamental right to grow vegetables in their front yard, even if they don’t have a ...

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Policing For Profit: Where Does Your State Rank In Forfeiture Abuse?

Policing For Profit: Where Does Your State Rank In Forfeiture Abuse?

The majority of states in the US received a grade of “D” or worse in the second edition of the Institute for Justice’s Policing For Profit report, which examined how law enforcement can seize property or money and not return ...

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This American City Jails Citizens For Having Garden Weeds (Yes, Really)

This American City Jails Citizens For Having Garden Weeds (Yes, Really)

Officials in one Missouri city can jail citizens simply because they have not paid fines for such trivial matters as having dead vegetables, hosting a barbecue and even walking on the wrong side of the sidewalk. The actions by politicians ...

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Policing For Profit: Cops Seizing Innocent Motorists’ Cash

Policing For Profit: Cops Seizing Innocent Motorists’ Cash

It sounds almost like something out of an old Dukes of Hazzard television show: A man wins $50,000 at the casino, gets stopped for speeding, and has all of his money seized by a cop, who doesn’t charge him with ...

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New Jersey Seizing Man’s Home But Won’t Say Why

New Jersey Seizing Man’s Home But Won’t Say Why

Eminent domain abuse has sunk to a new low in New Jersey, where a state agency is allegedly trying to seize a man’s business and apartment house even though it has no known plans to use the property. To make ...

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Man Fined $30,000 For Renting Out His Apartment

Man Fined $30,000 For Renting Out His Apartment

Letting somebody sleep on your couch can get you evicted from your apartment in San Francisco. Residents of the city by the bay who can barely afford average rents of $3,350 a month are facing fines and eviction for using ...

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Free Speech Dead: City Demolishes Anti-Eminent Domain Sign

Free Speech Dead: City Demolishes Anti-Eminent Domain Sign

Critics of eminent domain are now being denied their basic right to freedom of speech — as well as their property rights — in some American cities. The most outrageous case occurred in Hawaii, where Honolulu city workers used a ...

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