It's only a matter of time before J.G. Wentworth tries to scrooooooo them out of their structured settlement.
Posted on 03/07/2019 1:42:53 AM PST by cowpoke
...The government, they felt, wasn’t doing enough to protect the lake. And so they wondered: What if the lake could protect itself? The idea they hatched that night ultimately resulted in a special election, which had the citizens of Toledo voting Tuesday on a very unusual question: Should Lake Erie be granted the legal rights normally reserved for a person? The measure passed easily, which means citizens will be able to sue on behalf of the lake whenever its right to flourish is being contravened — that is, whenever it’s in danger of major environmental harm...If the stakes felt almost unbearably high for the activists who pushed for the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, it’s because this was the first rights-based legislation aimed at protecting a whole US ecosystem: the lake, its tributaries, and the many species that live off it. The law isn’t without precedent, though. It’s part of the nascent rights of nature movement, which has notched several victories in the past dozen years.
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A war I never heard of.
They have been fought over less.
A windfall for lawyers I am dure.
Odd that a lake is a person now and has rights, but a baby isn’t and can be murdered on a whim.
I liked America better when it was in God we trusted...
Those human “blobs of cells” still haven’t been granted personhood rights.
Can I now legally marry Lake Erie?
Summary of the environmentalist movement written 2000 years ago, coming into very plain sight now:
Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
What the stupid law says is that anyone with an opinion can claim to “represent” Lake Erie, JUST because they have an opinion.
If that’s what they want, I suggest all the commercial interests that use the lake suggest in counter suits that THEY “represent” the lake, as surely it is the “natural right of the lake” to host navigation commensurate with its means to do so.
Not a single shot was actually fired in the Toledo War.
The only casualty was a guy who got stabbed.
The Michigan Militia did occupy Toledo, but the Ohio Militia got bogged down in a swamp near Bowling Green. Before they could make their way out Andrew Jackson had fired Michigan’s territorial governor and Congress was working on a fix.
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