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Harris is a lame excuse for why she's failing. Coming up in Marshall's News In about ten minutes before that, we got Tim the lawyer in the studio. Tim Sanderford, vice president for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute, where they busily fight for liberty. Perhaps you've heard of it. What have you guys been doing lately? A couple of wins?
Huh yeah. We want a couple of cases in one in Florida and one in California involving home sharing, you know where people allow people to stay in their homes like an Airbnb or home away or something like that, and a lot of communities across the country are trying to violate people's private property rights by telling them that they're not allowed to do that and imposing these blanket
bands and and and so forth. So we this is an issue that that we've really taken on at the Goldwater Institute, and we want a case in Pacific Grove, California, just recently where the court there said that that violated the California Coastal Act. Now that's interesting because the California Coastal Act says that the Coastal Commission has the authority to set the rules for how people use their land
along the coast. And usually they're very anti private property rights, environmentalist radicals, but in this case, they actually like home sharing because it's a way of allowing people to to to spend the weekend and enjoy the beach without building new hotels and things like that. So they're actually rather pro home sharing. So they've said that they don't want cities to outlaw people allowing allowing people to use their homes.
So we won that case in the trial court recently, and we want an even bigger case in Florida where they were uh that that community in Miami Dade County was prohibiting people from using their homes for short term rentals with these incredibly exorbitant fines like hundreds of thousands of dollars per violation, which we said violated the constitutional prohibition on excessive finds because both the federal and state
constitutions prohibit the government from imposing these excessive fines. And fortunately, Florida state law also said the same thing. It's set the number the amount of finds that cities are allowed to levy. And the court said that that was illegal, that what the city was doing, and struck down the
entire ordinance. So we're still doing some cases in places like Illinois, for example, where Illinois Chicago's rule on home sharing is you have to get a license, and when you get a license, among other things, the city is allowed to search your property quote at any time and for any reason. Wow, expended amendments and and we're not talking and you know, we're talking about people's homes here, you know, so it's it's even more extreme than that.
It's just in So unfortunately, this is one of those situations where nimbiism and this this this basic fundamental premise people have that they have a right to tell other people how to live their lives is so deeply rooted that even people that you talk to who normally say, well, I'm in favor of private property rights and limited government in the constitution, many of them will even turn around and say, well, but I have a right to tell
my neighbor what he can do with his land. Now, we're not saying that that people should be allowed to have loud party houses or something like that. Of course, the city should be able to crack down on nuisances, on noise and things like that. But you don't ban all backyard barbecues just because sometimes people get a little rowdy, or or make it illegal to have a Super Bowl party just in the entire city, just because sometimes one or two people have too much parking on the street
or something. But that's the way this is being approached nationwide, and it's a real shame because home sharing is good for local economies. It brings tourists into into towns to patronize local businesses and restaurants that otherwise would never go. I mean, I've I've done this. I was in too a vacation to New Orleans not long ago and stayed at a home sharing at a home and we we went all to to all these little local restaurants and things. We would have never gone there if we had stayed
at the big hotel downtown. So this is another situation where trying to dictate to other people how they use their property and how they live their lives is also bad for the economy and bad for for people who need homesharing to pay their bills. You lift up your shirt and get some beads in New Orleans, You know I probably could I stopped. I saw McDonald so much nowadays. What's your Twitter feed? Because you got one of the
best Twitter feeds out there. It's my my full name at Timothy Sanda for which I probably should have shortened because it takes up too many letters. Well, it shows up on our Twitter feed a lot, and I'm glad you fight for You ever consider doing slipping falls? No. I went to law school because I wanted to sue the government. It's the best the world. I would do it for free if I had to. In fact, I
sort of do because I don't charge my clients. And by the way, we have supported entirely by donations from people who agree with the things that we do. We're having our big annual gala dinner in Phoenix on Friday, and if if folks out there, if any of you would like to come along, go to Goldwater Institute dot org. You can find out about the dinner on Friday. You
can find out about the stuff that we do. We have a blog where we follow all the all the stuff that we're engaged in across the country Goldwater Institute dot org. Tim is going to stick around for a little bit and I have some questions about some of the stories of the day and how they fit into liberty and freedom in the law and that sort of thing. Marshall's got his news in just a few minutes, and we'll check out on where we are with the latest
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