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.
While I agree that you should be able to grow whatever food you want on your own property, neighborhood HOA’s have standards for what you can and can’t do in your FRONT yard to maintain the property values within the neighborhood.
Neighborhood HOA’s also have rules about trash, broken down vehicles, and maintaining your property.
As far as I know, there is nothing stopping them from planting a garden in their backyard. So as long as they can plant a garden in their backyard, there shouldn’t be a problem.
What or get cited…jailed. Are they serious! They are idiots plain and simple!
Can’t be true. Would never stop me.
? What a bunch of idiots!
kiss my ass
This is when the right to bare arms comes in.
All these judges need to be made fertilizer.
The United States Supreme Court made the same decision during the FDR administration after he stacked the court…
B******t
The Court system is really fucked up especially the.liberals and Democrat judges. There’s got to be something do
The land of the free???….