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Pay Up! IJ Wins First-of-Its-Kind Victory for Texas Property Owner

On June 22, for the first time in history, a federal court awarded damages against a municipality as compensation for the intentional destruction of private property by the city’s police. The case concerned a SWAT raid that occurred during the summer of 2020. IJ client Vicki Baker was in the process of selling her home in McKinney, Texas, in order to finance her retirement in Montana. She had already relocated to Montana when an armed fugitive—who had kidnapped a teenage girl—took refuge in her house in McKinney.
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Final Victory for Charlottesville Author
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Educational Choice
 

Victory for Parents in the Volunteer State
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Short Circuit

We welcome Nolan Gray on this week, author of the new book Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. He joins us for a detailed journey through zoning’s history, how humans got along for so long without it, why it creates so many more problems than it solves, and why it’s become so much worse.
 
Short Circuit

Paul Avelar of IJ joins us to present a Sixth Circuit case where the owners committed the crime of landscaping their lawn without permission. Your host Anthony Sanders tells a tale of wine and intervention, also in the Sixth Circuit.
 
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