CINCINNATI — A college student whose life savings was seized because police said they smelled marijuana on his luggage is getting all of his cash back – plus interest — after nearly two years of a legal fight. Police stopped ...
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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 ...
Read More »IRS Steals $68,382, Returns It After 3 Years, And Now Wants The Owners In Jail
Larry and David Vocatura could go to federal prison for depositing cash the wrong way – even though the IRS seized the money and already gave it back. The owners of a Connecticut bakery/sandwich shop won a major victory on ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »City To Bulldoze 350 Working Class Homes To Build Fancy Stores – Thanks To Federal Funds
An Indiana city is planning to use eminent domain to bulldoze a 74-year-old neighborhood to make way for a real estate development. The city of Charlestown wants to demolish 354 homes for new residential development, and it would pay for ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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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