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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 ...

  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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...