Pipeline Protestors Arrested. Sue Company that had them arrested.

The Texas pipeline proptests over TransCanada Pipeline are enough for a movie. Here’s the story:

  • Landowners and others protested the Trans Texas Pipeline in Texas (and elsewhere)
  • 3 peaceful protestors were arrested 
  • the 3 peaceful protestors sued the Sheriff Department that arrested them & TransCanada
  • TransCanada seeks a dismissal alleging that there is no proof that TransCanada’s agents or employees aided abuse of force by the sheriff departm…

Fight For Your Right to Party, Nay, to Property.

In tiny Eagle, Idaho, a business owner is fighting a blight designation for her property. The property has not, in the last 14 years, received a ticket or notice or fine. 

An Idaho Redevelopment Corporation wants her property for a parking lot and is trying to use a blight designation to get it. 

The business owner is a fighter. Sounding like 80s rock icons, she said, “My plans are still to continue to do what I think every American should do, fight for their property, figh…

The Infamous Kelo Property Revisited. Mayor Wants Kelo Park.

The Mayor of the City of New London wants to turn the property where the Kelo house stood to be turned into a park in honor of the residents whose homes were taken by eminent domain. 

Kelo’s house was taken for a economic development project that never came to full fruition. The Kelp land is ripe for something. 

The mayor’s campaign included these two issues:

  • The US Supreme Court was wrong in Kelo. New London should never have taken the land.
  • As mayor…

Legal Trend: No Talking About Eminent Domain. Eminent Domain is Fight Club.

The Institute of Justice is asking the US Supreme Court to reveiw a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals case that prohibits banners protesting the use of eminent domain. Why the hush-hush?

  • Central Radio had been in Norfolk for 80 years.
  • Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority wanted its land and buildings for Old Dominion University
  • Central Radio put up a banner on its own property which read ” “50 years on this street/78 years in Norfolk/100 workers/Threatene…