“Private Property protected from Bureau of Land
Management employee retaliation”-Reprinted
from Wyoming Agriculture (February 2006) with permission
of the Wyoming Farm Bureau.
On January 11, 2006, the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
held that employees in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cannot
retaliate against a ranch owner for refusing to grant the agency
a right-of-way across his private land. Harvey Frank Robbins
sued under RICO, saying that BLM employees used the power of
federal regulations to try to extort a right-of-way across his
private land in Wyoming. The case will go to jury trial in Cheyenne.
Additional Helpful
Organizations
Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation
address
Additional Resources
Rocky Mountain Region PFUSA
Publishes quarterly magazine “People for the USA”
about Western land issues and private property rights.
address
& email
Websites
Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation
www.wyfb.org
Wyoming State
Legislature
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State News
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 “The
New Wars for the West” - Keynote Address by William
Perry Pendley, Esq., President and Chief Legal Officer, Mountain
States Legal Foundation, Lakewood, Colorado; Eleventh Annual
National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany,
N.Y., October 13, 2007)
Perry Pendley successfully defended John Shuller against the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when, in self-defense, he shot
a grizzly bear. He won the case for Larry Squires, who wanted
to allow disposal of oil field brine in dry sink holes on his
property. Mountain States Legal Foundation is fighting for inholder
access to their property blocked by the U.S. Forest Service.
Pendley has argued successfully three times before the U.S. Supreme
Court on the right of contract regardless of race or ethnicity,
against what is called “affirmative action.”
More on this
topic: Endangered
Species — National
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 “Rancher
Frank Robbins Loses at the Supreme Court” - By Carol
W. LaGrasse, Reprinted from the New York Property Rights Clearinghouse,
Vol. 11, No. 3 (PRFA Summer 2007.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a mercurial decision
in Robbins v. Wilkie reversing the jury verdict that Bureau
of Land Management officials violated the Fifth Amendment private
property rights of Frank Robbins by repeatedly harassing him
to retaliate because he refused to grant a free right-of-way
easement across his Wyoming ranch. Only Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
held that Robbins’ property rights deserved protection.
More on this
topic: Rangeland
and Grazing — Nat’l
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 “Litigating
for Private Property Rights — A Western Perspective”
- By Harriet M. Hageman, Attorney, Hageman and Brighton, P.C.,
Cheyenne, Wyoming; Speech to the Ninth Annual Conference on
Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y. October 22,
2005)
Threats to private property rights affect our families, our
communities, our environment, our educational system and the
future of our children. With the Preble’s Jumping
Mouse and the introduction of the Canadian gray wolf into Wyoming
as examples, the Endangered Species Act is being manipulated,
not for the purpose of benefiting endangered species, but to
limit management and use of private property.
More on this
topic: Endangered
Species — Nat’l
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- “Wyoming
Conservation Easement Bill Defeated” — By Carol W. LaGrasse
(PRFA, March 15 2003)
In a victory for private property rights, legislation that
would have enacted the Uniform Conservation Easement Act into
law in Wyoming was defeated on March 4, the final day of the
session, with a Senate tie vote.
More on this
topic: Conservation
Easements
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