Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals has just made a landmark ruling that the Institute for Justice is calling “a major blow to property rights.”
Tom Carroll and Hermine Ricketts, 17-year homeowners, have been fighting the Village of Miami Shores for the last 6 years. The battle ended in a verdict after 3 years but they fought on. It all started back in 2014 when the couple refused to take the “advice” handed down to them by the town officials keen on implementing a new zoning plan.
The homeowners refused to relinquish their constitutionally protected rights. That is when town officials resorted to plan b.
The couple subsequently sued based on a constitutional infringement upon their right to use their own private property as well as a violation of the equal protection clause.
Head on over to the next page to learn about the decision just handed down by Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals in regards to property rights.
Getting closer to communism. Just like back in the day in the Soviet union, you could own your home, but not the land. As for the Supreme court, people don’t listen to them. The Baker in what, Colorado is on his 3rd time being sued after the Supreme court made a ruling. The rule of law, and constitutional rights went out the window decades ago. This just means more control over everybody!!
Fill your yards full of giiant sunflowers. 5 deep see how they like those.
Shows you how messed up we are living in a society that are runned by educated idiots! And now people can grow cannabis at home! For medicinal purposes. And growing eatable vegetables is illegal.
That’s crazy. My grandparents always grew their own food . We had potatoes, corn, beets, Rasberry patches, a grape barber, raised our own chickens too. They canned everything too. Go to heck with your ruling. You are nuts.
It is a homeowner’s association. They get to decide what you can do on your property. Some do not allow grass, trees or flowers, and there is nothing you can do about it. So these people have to learn to live withing the confines of community rules.
I bet if we look at all the s**t this government has put on the books I bet if we breath wrong they can arrest us time to get government out of our personal life I think they should have to post every law so Americans can read before they make it a law
This is just another example of the GOVERNMENT trying to take our rights from us. You pay for your property, you pay taxes on your property (and if you don’t pay the taxes, they sell your home) now, taking your right to grow vegetables from us????? Just another way for them to make more money off of you by handing out fines and end result, from not paying the fine take your home. It was never ours to start with…..and they say the United States is the land of free…..Yes, the land of the free for the GOVERNMENT!!!
Take it to SCOTUS!!! I would fight it all the way. It’s your property, as long as not ugly or obsene should be no problem!!!
As a home owner I like that my neighbor can grow real veggies in either their front or back yard. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to mind their own business. No voilence required~ For those who think otherwise just mind your own business period!
Omg…. unbelievable !!!! Never will I ever live in Florida!! New York!! Massachusetts!! Washington or Oregon as soon as I can I am moving OUT of California!! And into the Bible Belt