This one isn't quite as sensational as the Baker's Green Acres (vs. the MI DNR) story, but it still might be interesting to a few folks here:
Shady Grove Farm, owned and operated by the Buchler family in Gwinn, MI, is in a legal battle with the Forsyth Township over zoning regulations and the...
Here is an article I ran across about a Supreme Court ruling to be made in the "Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons" case. It involves a ruling over whether or not the original copyright holder will have the power to stop someone from selling a product or item made overseas without the copyright...
An Illinois appellate court Friday affirmed a the trial court's opinion, that pharmacies cannot be compelled to dispense the "morning after" pills - based upon religious objections.
Court: Illinois can't force pharmacists to give 'morning after' pill - U.S. News
Oh, and just to appease the 1...
City may sue developer who spent $20,000 to remove 40 tons of trash from vacant lot | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News
:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
So property owners that have been using the government to beat their neighbors about...
Folks said it would and it has. Claude and Annie's has had to close 2 of their locations, as a result of the smoking ban. Restaurants operate on thin margins at best and losing any amount of regular customers can make a significant impact. When they lost their smokers it was apparently enough to...
Summer time brings up images of leafy green gardens . . . all in violation of some ordinance or another.
Reason magazine examines the struggles of keeping food legal:
I Say Tomato, You Say No - Reason.com
At the risk of opening yet another can of worms with the extreme property rights crowd, this is another story in the news today.
Mow Your Lawn or Go to Jail, Warns One Long Island Village
The Massapequa Park (New York) Village Board has unanimously passed a local ordinance imposing fines and...
From the folks who brought you the instructional video How to Manufacture Probable Cause comes a followup How to Steal, Lie, and Get Off the Hook.
Man Loses $22,000 In New 'Policing For Profit' Case - NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather & Sports
Folks, this is appalling. The...
George Lucas Does Something Likeable For a Change: Revenge on Rich Neighbors | Movie News | Movies.com
Ignore the extremely leftish position of the writing. They want to point out that the neighbors are "rich" and therefore evil. Nevermind that Lucas is probably richer than the whole...
The trekkies who got pulled over in Illinois for a BS reason and then had their Rights violated by one of the boys in blue are suing. Good for them. I hope they take these guys to the cleaners and set a precedent that does some serious damage to these goons abilities to harass innocent people...
and charge them with trespass if they refuse.
(mods wasn't really sure where to put it so I went with here move if you desire)
this is a very short and incomplete lists of reasons you can ask people to leave. Please feel free to add your favorites to the list.
1) Having blue eyes
2)...
money in proximity of a controlled substance confiscated
A waitress receives a "miracle" tip in the amount of $12,000. calls police to see what to do, police take money tell her she can have all of it after 60 days if it is unclaimed. after 60 days she is told it is 90 days.
She is now suing...
Seems to me that the State has stolen our personal property rights out from under us by the imposition of the real estate tax.
With that tax, we never really "own" our property outright, even if we no longer have a loan, because we have an ongoing tax obligation. Don't pay your real estate...
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/newsworldnation/954763-227/employers-ask-job-seekers-for-facebook-passwords.html
Company ask applicants for passwords to social media sites to check on their private lives.
The code enforcement nazis nabbed another one. A Minnesota man will spend a month in a cage because he didn't finish putting the siding on his house. He ran into money troubles and couldn't afford to finish the project. Thank goodness this criminal is off the streets.
Man Jailed...
Looks like enough stuff got amended to the statewide smoking ban to make it unpalatable to most of those who would have been for it. It's watered down a whole lot and I'm willing to bet it dies off this go around. Too bad, Mitch. You won't get your smoking ban before you're out of office.
How a...