Suit Against EPA Advances After Judge Denies MTD; Suit Uncovers Govt. Officials Censored Free Speech

CO Landowner’s Lawsuit Against EPA Advances After Judge Denies MTD

Judge Armando Bonilla of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims issued a decision from the bench in favor of NCLA’s client and denying a motion to dismiss in Todd Hennis v. The United States of America. Mr. Hennis filed a lawsuit against the United States for the physical taking of his property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment. On August 5, 2015, EPA destroyed the portal to the Gold King Mine, located in Silverton, Colorado. Upon doing so, the agency released a toxic sludge of over 3,000,000 gallons of acid mine drainage and 880,000 pounds of heavy metals into the Animas River watershed. EPA eventually mobilized supplies and equipment onto Mr. Hennis’s downstream property to address the immediate after-effects of its actions. The U.S. Government has never paid Mr. Hennis any compensation for either flooding or appropriating his property for public use. It has instead squatted on his lands for seven years and counting.

NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Harriet Hageman recounts her win in Hennis in the Court of Federal Claims.

Suit Uncovers Army of Govt. Officials Coercing Big Tech to Censor Speech

A joint statement on discovery disputes in the lawsuit, State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al., has revealed that scores of federal officials across at least eleven federal agencies secretly communicated with social-media platforms to censor and suppress private speech federal officials disfavor.

Vec and NCLA Litigation Counsel Jenin Younes discuss the bombshell discovery documents.