Institute for Justice

VICTORY!!! Supreme Court Sides with Family in Wrong House Raid Case In April, the Court heard argument in Martin v. United States. Today we won! #WrongHouseRaid #MartinVUS #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt

America is the middle of a critical housing shortage. The last thing any local government should be doing is stopping people from adding affordable housing. This week, a Minnesota family joined forces with IJ to file a lawsuit against the city of Blaine, Minnesota over the…

The latest episode of @IJ's roundtable podcast, Unpublished Opinions, just dropped! @JohnGaelen @DianaKSimpson & Sam Gedge bicker over the Bluebook, dialogue about dictionaries, and scheme on strategy in public interest law. ij.org/podcasts/unpub…

In May, Greers Ferry, AR installed a license plate reader in front of Charlie & Angie Wolf's house. It takes a photo every time they leave or get home. The city refuses to move it. Today, @IJ demanded the city move the camera & end its ALPR program. ij.org/press-release/…

In a win for @IJ's activism work, Kansas City, Kansas has put a 3-year moratorium on its parking minimum law. This is a huge win for small businesses in KCK. ij.org/press-release/…

Any #txlege folks at the ALEC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis this week? If so, please stop by the @IJ booth and say hi! 👋 Whether you’re interested in zoning reform, civil asset forfeiture, CON reform, occupational licensing or food freedom - we’ve got a model bill for that! 📝

Zoning codes have grown so complicated that even the rule keepers can't keep track. In Dallas, the permit agency has given and then retracted permission to build homes. In fact, the agency even had to move out of its own new building because... it failed permitting. 🧵

"Dallas’s errors have been obvious and comical, but building homes isn’t necessarily easier in American cities where permitting offices don’t make glaring mistakes. The rules are complicated all over." More from @AndrewWimer @Forbes: forbes.com/sites/institut…

A NY town banned building more cozy #cottage clusters like these "To enable the building of these #creative dwellings, cities need to reexamine their #zoning regulations. ...if it’s your #property, you have the right to build something magical on it" @IJ ij.org/when-the-gover…

Seattle’s affordable housing law is making the process of building houses less affordable. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…

As part of our First Amendment and immunity work, @IJ filed an amicus in support of @rcfp in Deep South Today v. Murrill. The case challenges Louisiana's so-called Police Buffer Law making it a duplicative and amorphous crime to get within 25 feet of police doing public business.

Some people can run 2 miles in 8 minutes, but not Samuel Scott. Miami police accused him of crimes anyway, hinging on his ability to pull off this Olympic-level feat. The case highlights the absurdity of qualified immunity. @IJ @JustinPearsonIJ @Slate slate.com/news-and-polit…

An unconstitutional Louisiana law creates a 25-foot "buffer zone" around any police activity—even if you're just filming. But the #1stAmendment protects the right of people to observe actions being taken by government officials without fear of prosecution. This law not only…

You have a clearly-established right to record the police. But Louisiana lawmakers passed an unconstitutional law that creates a 25-foot "buffer zone" around any police activity. @IJ has filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit challenging this law. ij.org/press-release/…

People break the law when they dine and dash. But the government does something similar. It damages private property and leaves without paying. Melisa and Michael Robinson have fighting for compensation for 16 years in Okay, Oklahoma. @IJ @dcexaminer washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…

Florida's highest court recently rejected a claim that deregulating the Tampa taxi market was a taking. It's a bit of a blast-from-the-past from the Uber cases of a decade ago. And it cements something @IJ has argued for longer: There's no such thing as a deregulatory taking.