标题: Lozman v City of Riviera Beach, Florida [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 12-5-2017 17:26 标题: Lozman v City of Riviera Beach, Florida Adam Liptak, Gadfly at the Supreme Court, Twice; An 'underdog' and a Florida city clash in court again. New York Times, Dec 5, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/ ... -speech-arrest.html
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(a) "In 2013, he won his first Supreme Court case against the city, Riviera Beach. By a 7-to-2 vote, the justices ruled that the city had misused maritime law to seize and destroy his houseboat. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. called the decision his favorite of the term."
(i) Riviera Beach, Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riviera_Beach,_Florida
(a city; "was originally called Riviera * * * named after the French Riviera")
(ii) Lozman v City of Riviera Beach, Florida (2013) _ US _ https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-626_p8k0.pdf
Litigation history: Lozman bought the floating home in 2002.The city initiated a lawsuit at federal district court in 2009, and the Eleventh Circuit court of appeals affirmed the city's victory in 2011. Thereafter the city won the floating home in an auction to satisfy its tax lien and destroyed it.
(b) "Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear another appeal from Mr Lozman. * * * "