Witnesses claim that police and social workers took a newborn baby away from his young mother while she was still in the hospital and breastfeeding, without giving a sufficient reason. The case is controversial because the mother was a 14-year-old ...
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Shock: Police Seize 4 Children Simply Because They Were Spanked
Just the suspicion of spanking can lead to a police raid and seizure of children by social workers in at least one Western nation. A couple in Norway had four children and a baby taken away because they spanked ...
Read More »Feds Seize $271,080 From Brothers, But Don’t Charge Them And Refuse To Give It Back
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 ...
Read More »Distraught Mom: State Kidnapped My 4-Month-Old Baby
Did the state of Texas just kidnap a baby? Such a situation may sound unbelievable, but the Justina Pelletier and the Diegel sisters cases make such a medical kidnapping scenario sound at least plausible. Lorie Blalock – the mother of ...
Read More »How Police Can Seize All Your Money During A Routine Traffic Stop – Even Without A Warrant
Police around the nation have seized $2.5 billion from people all over the country without warrants or charges since 2001, The Washington Post reported, in a program that has entangled thousands of innocent drivers. The newspaper also discovered cases where ...
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 »City Seizes Famous Artist’s Studio To Build Store And Parking Lot
The city of Philadelphia has used eminent domain to take a famous artist’s privately owned studio to build a supermarket that might end up sitting empty. The latest abuse of eminent domain for urban renewal in the city of Brotherly ...
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