Tag: private property rights

Virginia Sued Over Law That Allows Violation of Ranchers’ Property Rights

Virginia is being sued by property owners over its unusual law that allows hunters to invade private property to retrieve their hunting dogs, often resulting in damage to property and livestock. This lawsuit is not aimed at hunting, but at protecting property rights, according to the Sacramento, California-based Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a national nonprofit public interest…


Private Property: The Indispensable Key to Political Freedom, Social Cooperation, and Economic Progress

Commentary Imagine a society with no property rights: No law or officer of the law would prohibit you or punish you for taking whatever you want from whomever you want. Such a society would be chaotic, hostile, and poor. In such a dog-eat-dog scenario, all but the most powerful and their allies would have little…


Business Owner Takes Private Property Fight Against California’s ‘Union Access Law’ to the Supreme Court

Mike Fahner, the owner of a strawberry operation in northern California who is embroiled in a legal dispute with union organizers that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” program that his challenge to a controversial California union access regulation has broader implications for the protection of private property rights under…