Regarding Hohenberg, IJ said: “In custodia tablet samsung sm t585 2009, a tree fell on her home causing significant damage. While she tried to custodia samsung s3neo get her insurance to pay for repairs to her home, Ms. coque samsung a5 2016 manga coque a50 samsung kakashi Hohenberg’s neighbors sued her in the Environmental Court. coque samsung galaxy 5s mini Constitution,” said IJ cover samsung custodia cover samsung note10 plus grand neo plus amazon Senior Attorney Bill Maurer. “A courtroom that does not verify evidence, hear testimony under oath, transcribe its proceedings or iphone 6 6s hoesje keep records is comment installer book cover samsung no court at all.”
The Tennessee Legislature in 2004 passed the Neighborhood Preservation Act to let private and government entities sue to enforce municipal code violations.
In Shelby County, it’s the Environmental Court that reigns in such disputes.
IJ said that during the proceedings against Hohenberg, the custodia con batteria iphone 7 Environmental Court custodia samsung s3 neo amazon ordered her to sign a quit claim deed so the house could be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
“She refused s9 samsung custodia to sign the deed. The Environmental Court issued an order of contempt and arrest. Fearing that jail would kill her in her fragile physical state, she fled to stay at a hotel in Mississippi. The Environmental Court then ordered her personal possessions to be removed from the house. paper bag coque iphone 11 coque iphone x anime Since she was too ill to move her possessions herself, and too poor to hire someone to do it for her, the city of Memphis placed her possessions in the street, where her furniture, personal possessions, financial records and papers were either carried away or lost.”
Hohenberg, through her lawyers, said: “My home, everything I had, is now gone. coque iphone 4s logo And there’s no record of why it was taken away.”
The shortcomings in what most would consider reasonable judicial standards are enormous, the case reveals.
“Private plaintiffs or Memphis code enforcers present unsworn, unauthenticated information about defendants’ homes. coque honor 10 harry potter chobit coque iphone 11 Neighbors testify against a defendant by being called upon in the audience cover samsung galaxy s5 and asked to stand and speak. crona soul eater coque iphone 11 coque iphone 6s dessin Anyone wishing to review what happened in a case against them is typically out of luck many case files are samsung s3 neo custodia flip lost, destroyed or may not have been created in the first instance. While defendants are technically able to appeal cover samsung galaxy j320 Environmental Court decisions, there is no record, evidence or transcripts for an appellate court to examine. aesthetic naruto coque iphone 11 Put another way, defendants have the right to appeal in name only.”
Rob Peccola, an IJ lawyer, said the Environmental Court destroyed Hohenberg’s life.
“By the time the Environmental Court was finished with her, she was bankrupt, homeless, stripped of her possessions and a fugitive from the law. This complete lack of due process is unconstitutional and a disgrace.”
Hanson, IJ said, also lost his home in a similar proceeding.
“Despite no cover samsung s6 marca testimonial or evidentiary basis, the Environmental Court jailed Mr. Hanson numerous times, bulldozed his home and destroyed his possessions. He, too, is now homeless,” cover samsung j5 2017 panda IJ said.
The case seeks a court declaration that the proceedings have been illegal, along with compensation for their losses.
It contends that city officials knew “the court lacked constitutionally sufficient due process” but they decided to “continue collaborating and funding ongoing code enforcement operations custodia cover huawei y7 2019 designed to send property owners to . diego brando coque iphone 11 litigation.”
Hohenberg, the complaint explains, owned her property outright, and after a storm dropped a tree on the main house and made amazon cover samsung galaxy j7 it uninhabitable, she lived in a two room outbuilding while she sued her insurance company for repairs.
During that time, her neighbors, Frederick and Mercedita Neal, sued her for $30,000, and cover samsung galaxy s2 gt-i9100 she was forced to spend $100,000 defending herself.
Eventually the court simply appointed an organization, Neighborhood Preservation Inc., as receiver for her property. The court ordered her to sign over title, and when she refused, ordered her arrest.
Her possessions were thrown onto the front yard and were lost.
