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.
Who the duck are they to tell me what I can and can not grow on my property. If I am not selling it for profit they have no right to keep me from it.
Apparently Monsanto owns these so called judges
That’s ridiculous
Grow those vegetables
Glenn Boyd very well may be, would not be a surprise.
Oh b******t
THAT IS AGAINST ALL THE ARTICLES OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. BILL OF RIGHTS.
I would sue to have them pay my mortgage!!
That,ll be the day
They will turn us into serfs