WND 9/22/2024
'What's worse is that if I try to rebuild or buy another property, I have no guarantee this won't happen again. It's just not right'A county in Georgia is being sued for destroying a man's home while he was in the middle of a renovation project.
The Institute for Justice said the owner, Eric Arnold, tried to convince a demolition crew to hold off, but they refused.
They had been sent by the Macon-Bibb County officials to bulldoze the structure, under the claim that the work was part of a campaign to get rid of "blight."
There had been no court proceedings, no notice and there has been no financial compensation, the IJ reported.
The county's actions "violated Eric's constitutional rights to notice and a meaningful opportunity to be heard. To vindicate those rights and others, Eric has teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to sue Macon-Bibb County in state court."
Lawyer Christie Hebert, who is working on the case, said, "Property rights are the bedrock of American society. To arbitrarily destroy Eric's house without even the courtesy of letting him know is wrong ethically and wrong under the law."
More:
https://www.wnd.com/2024/09/its-devastating-u-s-county-destroys-mans-home-while-being-renovated/
