Private Property Cases
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
This Ends Now: Enforcing New Mexico’s Landmark Civil Forfeiture Reform To Shut Down The Albuquerque Forfeiture Machine
Fines and Fees | Private Property | Rule of Law
Class Action Lawsuit Challenges Policing for Profit in St. Louis Co. Municipal Court System
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
IJ to IRS: Give Back This Money
The message from the Institute for Justice, which represents Ken and Randy, to the IRS is simple: If you’ve taken something that doesn’t belong to you, give it back.
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
Ordinary Americans Are Victims of Policing for Profit in Our Nation’s Airports
Charles Clarke is one of thousands of Americans whose cash has been seized at an airport through civil forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to seize cash and property without ever charging anyone with any crime.
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
Government Unreformed
Lyndon McLellan has spent more than a decade running L&M Convenience Mart, a gas station, restaurant, and convenience store in rural Fairmont, North Carolina. Then, one year ago, without any warning, agents from the IRS seized his entire bank account, totalling more than $107,000. With that, Lyndon entered the upside down world of civil forfeiture, where the government can seize and keep ordinary Americans’ property without ever charging them with a crime.
Economic Liberty | Food Freedom | Private Property
Beer Bounty: Texas Craft Brewers Sue Over New Law That Requires Them to Give Part of Their Businesses to Distributors for Free
A Texas law is forcing craft brewers to give up millions of dollars of valuable property to politically connected beer distributors.
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
HELD UP: Feds Use Civil Forfeiture To Seize More than $446,000 From Innocent Family Business; Deny Hearing for More than Two Years.
The Hirsch brothers have done nothing wrong, yet the IRS seized their entire bank account.
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
TAKEN: Feds Seize Family Restaurant’s Entire Bank Account Innocent Owners Fight Back
The IRS seized Carole’s money using civil forfeiture, which allows law enforcement agencies to take cash, cars and other property without so much as charging the property owner with a crime.
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
Fighting the Philadelphia Forfeiture Machine: Philadelphia Deprives People of Their Rights While Trying to Forfeit and Profit from Their Property
Police and prosecutors use civil forfeiture to strip thousands of Americans of their rights and property. Nowhere is the problem more rampant than in Philadelphia.
Economic Liberty | Eminent Domain | Private Property
Charlie's Home: How the Institute for Justice is helping one man fight To save his family home
An Atlantic City, N.J., man is fighting to save his family home from a state agency’s eminent domain abuse.
Food Freedom | Private Property | Zoning Justice Project
An Affront To Gardeners Everywhere: Miami Shores Forces Homeowners To Destroy Their Front-Yard Vegetable Garden
Miami Shores Village, Fla.’s unconstitutional ban on front-yard vegetable gardens prohibits homeowners from growing vegetables in their front yards. But trees, fruit and garden gnomes are just fine.
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
Taken: Federal Lawsuit in Michigan Challenges Forfeiture Abuse
Without warning, the federal government used civil forfeiture to seize all of the money from the Dehkos’ store bank account—more than $35,000—even though they’ve done absolutely nothing wrong.
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
Fighting Civil Forfeiture: Federal & Local Law Enforcement Agencies Team Up to Profit by Subverting California State Law
4th Amendment Project | Economic Liberty | Private Property | Vending
Sweet Home Chicago?: Food Trucks Get the Cold Shoulder in the Windy City
Chicago shouldn’t be in the business of protecting restaurants from food trucks.
Private Property | Rental Caps
Slamming the Door on Rental Bans: Winona Homeowners Stand Up for Their Property Rights
Government officials in Winona, Minn., are imposing a restriction on the number of homeowners who can rent out their properties, harming both homeowners and renters alike. Not only is this policy unwise, it is also unconstitutional.
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
Fighting Civil Forfeiture Abuse: Federal & Local Law Enforcement Agencies Try to Take Family Motel from Innocent Owners
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
Shining the Light on Law Enforcement Slush Funds: Lawsuit Seeks to Force Georgia Police to Follow the Law and Report Property Seized Through Civil Forfeiture
Civil Forfeiture | Private Property
Ending “Policing for Profit” in Texas: Constitutional Lawsuit Challenges Texas Law Allowing Forfeiture Abuse
Eminent Domain | Private Property
Beyond Its Authority: Eminent Domain Abuse By the St. Paul Port Authority
Eminent Domain | Private Property
Taking Music Out of Music City: Nashville Abuses Eminent Domain To Take Small Country Music Business For an Office Building
Eminent Domain | Private Property
Knocking Out Eminent Domain Abuse: Youth Gym Files Suit Against National City, Calif.
After decades of keeping two-thirds of the city under a bogus “blight” designation, National City, Calif., applied to renew the blight label to prevent it from expiring. That renewal would have reauthorized the city to abuse eminent domain against the nearly 700 properties in the designated area, including a gym for at-risk youth.
Eminent Domain | Private Property
Supreme Court refused to hear case about eminent domain abuse in New York
4th Amendment Project | Private Property | Rental Inspections
Red Wing Rental Inspections
Under Red Wing, Minn.’s rental inspection ordinance, it is easier for the government to force its way into the homes of law-abiding citizens than to search the home of a suspected criminal.
Eminent Domain | Private Property
Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse In Washington State: Washington Supreme Court Must Decide: Does “Necessity” Mean What You Need or What You Want?
Eminent Domain | Private Property
Protecting Kelo’s Victims In Riviera Beach, Florida: City Seeks to Use Eminent Domain To Replace Lower-Income & Minority Residents With Wealthier Ones
Eminent Domain | Private Property
Eminent Domain Abuse in Long Branch, N.J.: City Seeks to Kick Out Middle Class Along Oceanfront To Make Way For the Rich
Eminent Domain | Private Property
Arizona Supreme Court Declines Review Of Tempe Eminent Domain Case: Property Owners Rejoice, Await City of Tempe’s Next Move
4th Amendment Project | Private Property
Live Free or Die?: New Hampshire Homeowners Forced to Open Doors to Inspectors Or Suffer Consequences
4th Amendment Project | Private Property | Rental Inspections
Mandatory Inspections of Rental Property: Is Your Apartment Your Castle?
Eminent Domain | Private Property
