Legal

The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Tyler v. Hennepin County, asking the court to hear the case and protect the rights of people who have their property seized by the government from home equity theft. Buckeye was joined on the brief by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “By pocketing $25,000 in profits from the sale of Ms. Tyler’s home, Hennepin County has robbed Ms. Tyler of her home’s equity, plain and simple.”

The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Ariyan, Inc. v.  Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, urging the high court to protect private-property rights as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. “The Framers of the U.S. Constitution were clear when they drafted the Fifth Amendment, private property shall not be taken ‘without just compensation.’ And ‘just compensation’ means payment when the taking occurs, not when the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board feels like paying.”

The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief with the Ohio Supreme Court in Ohio Power Company v. Burns asking the court to uphold two long-recognized checks on the government’s power to take property by eminent domain—that the government may only take property that is necessary, and that courts can exercise the power of judicial review to ensure governments honor that limitation. The Buckeye Institute has called on Ohio’s high court to tell Ohio Power Company and AEP that the permanent easements they are demanding are unnecessary.