A new study of border takings under the 2006 Secure Fence Act finds that many owners get inadequate compensation, and that the condemnation process is flawed in other ways.
The North American Butterfly Association says Border Patrol agents have harassed employees and damaged property at the National Butterfly Center.
Property owners were ordered to pay thousands for violations unless they agreed to sell to a redeveloper.
The quick resolution of Phil Parhamovich's case shows once again that standing up to money-grabbing bullies can pay off.
Private property became the foundation for building the most prosperous nation in the history of the world.
A big defeat for anti-pipeline activists.
A couple of busted windows can result in a bill for thousands-even tens of thousands-of dollars.
A court says a city can squash your property rights because it thinks vegetables are ugly.
Twisted incentives? What are those? Rod Rosenstein doesn't seem to have heard of them.
The U.S. Supreme Court said local regulators could treat two lots owned by the same family as if they were a single parcel. A new law aims to stop that.
Gerardo Serrano still has not been compensated for the expenses imposed by the seizure.
Brian Strauss sues to protect his property rights.
Incentives for neighbors to turn on each other. Incentives for police to find reasons to seize people's stuff and keep it.
The river doesn't need rights if people have strong property rights to its water.
A new lawsuit argues that owners of vehicles seized at the border have a constitutional right to prompt hearings.
De Blasio literally wants to tell people what to do with their land.
When law enforcement agencies make money by seizing property, due process vanishes.
The attorney general revives a program that invites law enforcement agencies to evade state limits on asset forfeiture.
Chief Justice Roberts: "Today's decision knocks the definition of 'private property' loose from its foundation."
Short-term rentals are not the source of what ails the city.
Making an environmental resource a commons is tantamount to calling for its destruction.
Local regulatory busybodies are zoning away your right to grow food in your garden.
Nigeria will have a higher population than the U.S. by mid-century, when one in four people on Earth will live in Africa.
If making people prove their innocence to get their property back violates due process, what about civil forfeiture?
Should advanced permission be required, or should land owners post signs?
Civil forfeiture encourages cops to loot first and ask questions never.
Meanwhile, new reforms in Minnesota improve on a 2014 law requiring criminal conviction before property can be forfeited to law enforcement
A farmer in Kansas who wants to sell his property challenges the state's law.
Governments in Georgia will be allowed to seize property for "economic development" purposes, undoing reforms passed in 2006 after the Kelo ruling.
Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in Murr v. Wisconsin, which tests the rules for when governments must pay compensation for regulatory takings.
A dispute over 2.5 acres of land in the Wisconsin woods has morphed into a major property rights case. Several other states are watching it closely.
Environmental Protection Agency
Rolling back a "federal land grab" or instituting an "unmitigated disaster for fish and wildlife, hunting and fishing, and clean water"?
Charlestown can't seize the properties, so it's citing them to force them to sell.
The president agrees there should be no restraint on a form of legalized theft he clearly does not understand.
Missing the fact that governments, not mining companies, are the real villains
Property rights saved the Pilgrims from starvation; a lack of property rights keeps Indians in poverty today.
People's homes and businesses threatened unless they sign away rights.
Property owner wants to prevent natural-gas surveyors from coming onto her land.
Courts push back on property rights violations
The DOJ starts to retroactively apply new guidelines for structuring-related forfeitures.
Let's not ignore the ordinances and harassment of the poor that led to this.
SCOTUS issues important property rights victory in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co, Inc.
Prosecutors tried to drop the forfeiture case, but the judge would not let them.
