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Speaker 1: up in Marshall's News In about ten minutes before that,
Speaker 1: we got Tim the lawyer in the studio. Tim Sanderford,
Speaker 1: vice president for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute, where they
Speaker 1: busily fight for liberty. Perhaps you've heard of it. What
Speaker 1: have you guys been doing lately? A couple of wins?
Speaker 1: Huh yeah. We want a couple of cases in one
Speaker 1: in Florida and one in California involving home sharing, you
Speaker 1: know where people allow people to stay in their homes
Speaker 1: like an Airbnb or home away or something like that,
Speaker 1: and a lot of communities across the country are trying
Speaker 1: to violate people's private property rights by telling them that
Speaker 1: they're not allowed to do that and imposing these blanket
Speaker 1: bands and and and so forth. So we this is
Speaker 1: an issue that that we've really taken on at the
Speaker 1: Goldwater Institute, and we want a case in Pacific Grove, California,
Speaker 1: just recently where the court there said that that violated
Speaker 1: the California Coastal Act. Now that's interesting because the California
Speaker 1: Coastal Act says that the Coastal Commission has the authority
Speaker 1: to set the rules for how people use their land
Speaker 1: along the coast. And usually they're very anti private property rights,
Speaker 1: environmentalist radicals, but in this case, they actually like home
Speaker 1: sharing because it's a way of allowing people to to
Speaker 1: to spend the weekend and enjoy the beach without building
Speaker 1: new hotels and things like that. So they're actually rather
Speaker 1: pro home sharing. So they've said that they don't want
Speaker 1: cities to outlaw people allowing allowing people to use their homes.
Speaker 1: So we won that case in the trial court recently,
Speaker 1: and we want an even bigger case in Florida where
Speaker 1: they were uh that that community in Miami Dade County
Speaker 1: was prohibiting people from using their homes for short term
Speaker 1: rentals with these incredibly exorbitant fines like hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars per violation, which we said violated the constitutional
Speaker 1: prohibition on excessive finds because both the federal and state
Speaker 1: constitutions prohibit the government from imposing these excessive fines. And fortunately,
Speaker 1: Florida state law also said the same thing. It's set
Speaker 1: the number the amount of finds that cities are allowed
Speaker 1: to levy. And the court said that that was illegal,
Speaker 1: that what the city was doing, and struck down the
Speaker 1: entire ordinance. So we're still doing some cases in places
Speaker 1: like Illinois, for example, where Illinois Chicago's rule on home
Speaker 1: sharing is you have to get a license, and when
Speaker 1: you get a license, among other things, the city is
Speaker 1: allowed to search your property quote at any time and
Speaker 1: for any reason. Wow, expended amendments and and we're not
Speaker 1: talking and you know, we're talking about people's homes here,
Speaker 1: you know, so it's it's even more extreme than that.
Speaker 1: It's just in So unfortunately, this is one of those
Speaker 1: situations where nimbiism and this this this basic fundamental premise
Speaker 1: people have that they have a right to tell other
Speaker 1: people how to live their lives is so deeply rooted
Speaker 1: that even people that you talk to who normally say, well,
Speaker 1: I'm in favor of private property rights and limited government
Speaker 1: in the constitution, many of them will even turn around
Speaker 1: and say, well, but I have a right to tell
Speaker 1: my neighbor what he can do with his land. Now,
Speaker 1: we're not saying that that people should be allowed to
Speaker 1: have loud party houses or something like that. Of course,
Speaker 1: the city should be able to crack down on nuisances,
Speaker 1: on noise and things like that. But you don't ban
Speaker 1: all backyard barbecues just because sometimes people get a little rowdy,
Speaker 1: or or make it illegal to have a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: party just in the entire city, just because sometimes one
Speaker 1: or two people have too much parking on the street
Speaker 1: or something. But that's the way this is being approached nationwide,
Speaker 1: and it's a real shame because home sharing is good
Speaker 1: for local economies. It brings tourists into into towns to
Speaker 1: patronize local businesses and restaurants that otherwise would never go.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've I've done this. I was in too
Speaker 1: a vacation to New Orleans not long ago and stayed
Speaker 1: at a home sharing at a home and we we
Speaker 1: went all to to all these little local restaurants and things.
Speaker 1: We would have never gone there if we had stayed
Speaker 1: at the big hotel downtown. So this is another situation
Speaker 1: where trying to dictate to other people how they use
Speaker 1: their property and how they live their lives is also
Speaker 1: bad for the economy and bad for for people who
Speaker 1: need homesharing to pay their bills. You lift up your
Speaker 1: shirt and get some beads in New Orleans, You know
Speaker 1: I probably could I stopped. I saw McDonald so much nowadays.
Speaker 1: What's your Twitter feed? Because you got one of the
Speaker 1: best Twitter feeds out there. It's my my full name
Speaker 1: at Timothy Sanda for which I probably should have shortened
Speaker 1: because it takes up too many letters. Well, it shows
Speaker 1: up on our Twitter feed a lot, and I'm glad
Speaker 1: you fight for You ever consider doing slipping falls? No.
Speaker 1: I went to law school because I wanted to sue
Speaker 1: the government. It's the best the world. I would do
Speaker 1: it for free if I had to. In fact, I
Speaker 1: sort of do because I don't charge my clients. And
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Speaker 1: people who agree with the things that we do. We're
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Speaker 1: You can find out about the dinner on Friday. You
Speaker 1: can find out about the stuff that we do. We
Speaker 1: have a blog where we follow all the all the
Speaker 1: stuff that we're engaged in across the country Goldwater Institute
Speaker 1: dot org. Tim is going to stick around for a
Speaker 1: little bit and I have some questions about some of
Speaker 1: the stories of the day and how they fit into
Speaker 1: liberty and freedom in the law and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Marshall's got his news in just a few minutes, and
Speaker 1: we'll check out on where we are with the latest
Speaker 1: and all the dang stories that we're following. Dang story
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