The Privatopia Papers

Supreme Court and Appellate Court Opinions When the Twin Rivers opinion is posted, I think it will be on this hyperlink. Remember...tomorro...

Twin Rivers ruling to be announced tomorrow From the website of the New Jersey Court System: EXPECTED APPELLATE OPINIONS for Tuesday, Februa...

local6.com - News - Councilman Wants To Ban Smokers From City Jobs

Official California Legislative Information - Bill Information SB 551--CID ombudsman Fred Pilot alerted me to the passage by a 23-13-4 vote ...

Request for assistance... I'm working on a new book on HOAs, covering things that have happened since Privatopia was published. There i...

UIC News Release May as well give UIC a little plug, since I work there: Study Finds McHenry, Will Counties Lead Nation in Homeownership Two...

Castle Coalition: Interactive Map & State Overviews This website is from the Institute of Justice, which represented Suzette Kelo in the...

Real estate advice: Development's prices fall just before closing I found this link at The Volokh Conspiracy . It goes to a Bankrate.co...

Real estate advice: Development's prices fall just before closing I found this link at The Volokh Conspiracy . It goes to a Bankrate.co...

December new home sales rise 2.9 percent - CNN Sales are up, but it looks like the prices were lower. But here's a paragraph written ei...

'A Straightforward Decision' - January 26, 2006 - The New York Sun - NY Newspaper Here's a new approach to resisting the Kelo de...

TIME.com: Vegas Condos Go Cold -- Page 1 Sorry about this, but... Now that several high rollers in the Las Vegas condo-hotel game, with prop...

Homeowners rebel, oust board Thanks to Fred Pilot for this link: Grass-roots rebellions against homeowners associations are rare, even thoug...

Medina County Gazette - on-line edition: Homeowner associations act to bar sexual predators Fred Pilot sent this. There have been several ...

JURIST - Paper Chase: Eminent domain activists protest at Souter home Mystery Reader sent this link to a roundup of stuff on the hilarious e...

Spring Valley Lake board refuses to fire manager This is one of several Fred Pilot links that he has sent me and I have been too busy to pos...

Arizona Capitol Times: piece by Fred Fischer "HOAs are neither a democracy nor a community," he says.

Welcome to CHORE Pat Haruff pointed me to the spiffy updated CHORE website, which is full of information on the legislative picture in AZ.

Cities call eminent-domain bills too harsh The backlash against the USSC's Kelo v. City of New London decision continues, this time in A...

JournalStar.com: City considers ‘red-tagging’ problem houses Is it my imagination, or are municipalities starting to become more like HOAs? ...