Ari Bargil retweeted
We're coming to Cambridge, Mass! On Mon, Oct 19 see a live show on zoning, the Constitution, & Cambridge. Euclid v Ambler Realty, Nectow v Cambridge, & YIMBYism today. W/ @mollyxbrady @realBurhanAzeem @AriBFla @IJSanders.
Space is limited, RSVP today!
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Space is limited, RSVP today!
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Ari Bargil retweeted
Our Latest Podcast: Rights for Listeners.
With @JustinPearsonIJ & @AriBFla!
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With @JustinPearsonIJ & @AriBFla!
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Ari Bargil retweeted
"The fine must fit the crime": Supreme Court agrees to hear @IJ case of an Alaska bush pilot whose plane was taken by police after a passenger was caught with a six-pack of Budweiser in her luggage. @m_greenberg1 ij.org/press-release/…
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Ari Bargil retweeted
The city of South Milwaukee got rattled by two skeletons named Hector and Henrietta. @IJ is here to make sure free speech doesn't get buried. 💀
Beloved local icons Hector and Henrietta have a bone to pick with the South Milwaukee Inspection Department. Details: ij.org/press-release/…
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New case alert! This is a big one.
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 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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Ari Bargil retweeted
. @AriBFla & I filed an @IJ amicus brief supporting the reforms. We explain how modern zoning law completely upended the historical right to use your property for housing, that it did so largely to exclude people, and that the result has been a disaster for ordinary Americans.
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Ari Bargil retweeted
I hope the vast majority of freedom-loving Americans are uncomfortable with the idea that masked police are now telling people engaged in First Amendment-protected activity that they are "domestic terrorists" who will be added to a secret government database.
ICE agent in Portland, Maine tells legal observer she is a domestic terrorist for peacefully recording him, adds her to "nice little database"
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Ari Bargil retweeted
Today is the 14th anniversary of the launch of @IJ's #Florida chapter, which launched with this #vending case. Salud!🥂
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Ari Bargil retweeted
Our Latest Podcast: Won't You Take Me To YIMBYTown?
Recorded before a live audience at @YIMBYTown 2025! With @ProfSchleich @andrewdfine & @AriBFla!
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Recorded before a live audience at @YIMBYTown 2025! With @ProfSchleich @andrewdfine & @AriBFla!
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Ari Bargil retweeted
🎉And the judge just ruled from the bench, granting out motion for summary judgment! 🎉
Georgia nonprofit Tiny House Hand Up wants to build modest-sized homes to help with Calhoun, GA's housing crisis.
But the city bans all homes smaller than 1,150-sqare-feet.
Today, @IJ is in court arguing this ban is unconstitutional.
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Ari Bargil retweeted
Short Circuit is coming to @YIMBYtown 2025! A live podcast recording w/ @ProfSchleich @andrewdfine & @AriBFla & @IJSanders, in New Haven, CT on Sept 15. We'll highlight recent housing cases & where the courts are on allowing people to build housing. Link to sign up to YT below!
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Ari Bargil retweeted
My guest on @yeomanpodcast #21 is @AriBFla of @IJ. We discuss the legal history of zoning, the cultural and political backdrop for the controversial 1926 Euclid decision, recent litigation successes, and zoning's constitutional vulnerabilities. @VincentGGraham joined as co-host.
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Ari Bargil retweeted
Some towns rip citizens off by imposing petty fines.
Dunedin, FL collected $3.6 million in fines in 6 years.
They charged one man $35,000…for not mowing his grass.
@IJ lawyer @AriBFla says: “Code enforcement is a major cash cow.”
An update to my story from 6 years ago:
Dunedin, FL collected $3.6 million in fines in 6 years.
They charged one man $35,000…for not mowing his grass.
@IJ lawyer @AriBFla says: “Code enforcement is a major cash cow.”
An update to my story from 6 years ago:
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Ari Bargil retweeted
If it’s legal to sell a product, it’s also legal to talk about that product. But not in the Fifth Circuit. That’s why @IJ’s just-filed cert petition in Cocroft v. Graham asks #SCOTUS to clarify the commercial speech doctrine, which can silence entrepreneurs like Clarence.
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Ari Bargil retweeted
Often, the things government destroys are things that never existed: buildings never built, businesses never opened, ideas never pursued. But here’s a visible cost: a treehouse literally destroyed by regulation.
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Ari Bargil retweeted
After letter from @IJ Senior Attorney @AriBFla, Broward County finally realizes that Leann Barber should be allowed to keep operating her charitable vegetable garden for low-income kids after all. ij.org/press-release/…
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Ari Bargil retweeted
“Restrictive zoning is hard to escape. It follows people from cradle to grave — starting with day care and ending with burial. The ultimate losers are consumers, who get stuck with less choice” - well said by my @IJ colleague @KatrinMarquez bridgemi.com/guest-commenta…
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Ari Bargil retweeted
3 years ago today, @IJ filed a lawsuit on behalf of a mechanic in Pasadena, Texas, challenging the city's parking minimum law.
His story shows how local zoning laws and bureaucrats can turn someone's American Dream into a nightmare.🧵
His story shows how local zoning laws and bureaucrats can turn someone's American Dream into a nightmare.🧵
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