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This City Banned Single-Family Homes—But Not Nightclubs Art Yatsko spent years planning to build a home for his retirement in Florida. He bought a lot, paid the taxes, saved his money, and designed his dream house. Then the city told him it was illegal to build a single-family house in a neighborhood made up entirely of single-family houses. The city *will* allow him to build a nightclub or a shooting range—but not the home he's been planning for decades. That's irrational. Now Art and IJ are challenging it in court.
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💊 Introducing Immunity™: The Legal Drug That Erases Consequences 💊 Now available in a variety of powerful formulations: 👉 Qualified Immunity 👉 Absolute Immunity 👉 Municipal Immunity 👉 Prosecutorial Immunity 👉 Judicial Immunity Take your pick — there’s a dose for every level of power. Immunity™: It stops accountability dead.
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500 Surveillance Cameras Are Tracking Drivers in This City
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Pennsylvania has a loophole that lets certain officers walk onto private land without a warrant—as long as they say they’re checking for a fishing violation. This happened twice to one family. So we filed a federal lawsuit challenging the law which permits warrantless trespassing by 'fish cops'. Read more here:
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Federal Bank Surveillance: Are You on Their Watchlist? Federal law requires banks and other financial institutions to monitor their customers and report anything “suspicious” to federal law enforcement. All kinds of things can be deemed “suspicious,” including: 👉 Regular cash deposits or withdrawals 👉 Activity just under $10,000 👉 Overseas transactions 👉 Donations to certain nonprofit organizations 👉 Transactions at gun shops 👉 Shopping at stores like Dick’s Sporting Goods and Cabella’s If your bank account has been closed or if you've been affected by federal bank surveillance, we want to hear from you. Visit to learn more.
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Tracking people’s locations over time, even in public, would allow the government to learn intimate details about a person’s life—from habits to religion to health to friendships—that would otherwise be impossible to know without effectively stalking that person. But the 4th Amendment of the Constitution protects our right to be secure from unwarranted government tracking and monitoring. IJ Senior Attorney Josh Windham (windyjosh) on IJ's challenge to Norfolk, Virginia's unconstitutional invasion of privacy:
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