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.
Excuse me! We have our own garden and fruit trees I’ve been gardening since I was 5 and yes we grow pick and eat our own veggies!
I’m sorry I find this ruling ridiculous and absurd!
Dismantle the municipal government of Miami Shores and any other pro-hunger anti-food municipality that wants to contribute to world hunger by threatening innocent home owners for the Constitutionally protected act of growing food on land they own. This is why we need unincorporation of previously incorporated land by petition and popular vote. Tyrannical cities must cease to exist.
Michelle VonAhn but what if mowed grass is unacceptable to me. Apparently being a Republic has no meaningful place in the Republic of the United State of America. In a Republic, the state acknowledges the rights of the individual over and above those of society. My land my choice…if you don’t like the view, build a wall on your property or the cities property then.
No, no, no…. You have it all wrong… America is the land of the free…. to conform.
Just watch me!
THIS$#%&!@*NEEDS TO STOP.
B******t
B******t
Go$#%&!@*yourselves ill do what i please