Author name: The Civil Rights Lawyer

Gasoline may not be available today in the lush and beautiful mountains of West Virginia, but an update on the current preservation progress of my Revolutionary War era log fort is actually available. This site was constructed and occupied 6 years before the Declaration of Independence was even written. And The author, Thomas Jefferson, called […]

The SCOTUS issued an opinion today protecting the sanctity of the Fourth Amendment protections of the home, which also served as an anti-red-flag ruling, restricting the police from performing warrantless searches of homes to seize firearms. This is just in time for recent updates on two of our search and seizure cases with the same

Byrnside’s Fort renovation/preservation update as of 5/17/21. source

Can private employers mandate you-know-what? Here’s my appearance on the Tom Roton Show this morning. Here is a “to whom it may concern” letter for those in West Virginia who are being threatened with, or subjected to, you-know-what mandates, which I mentioned during the broadcast. “To whom it may concern” letter detailing the fact that

Today we filed suit in the case of the “Outlaw Barber,” Winerd “Les” Jenkins, a 73 year old combat veteran and former 27-year Deputy U.S. Marshall, who was arrested for refusing to close his barbershop during the Governor’s lockdown in April of 2020. We filed a Section 1983 civil rights lawsuit in federal court, in

Restoration progress on the Circa 1770 Virginia frontier log fort, Byrnside’s Fort, and some large rainbows at the waterfall. More about the fort: https://scavengeology.com/the-story-of-byrnsides-fort/ source

Outrageous! A secret organization of Family Court “Judges” who are ganging up in bold defiance of our constitutional rights. You’ve all seen the video of the Family Court judge who searched my client’s home: https://youtu.be/V-2o0PVLQtk Now this: The WV Record article: https://wvrecord.com/stories/601178380-family-court-judicial-associations-drafts-resolution-seeking-to-have-disciplinary-counsel-fired The “Resolution:” https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/d5/5b/11565605/scan_0102.pdf Our lawsuit, filed in March: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2021/03/23/federal-suit-filed-against-family-court-judge-and-deputies-for-warrantless-search-and-seizure/ Sorry about the low

Today we filed suit against Enlivant, a Chicago company who owns and operates an assisted living facility in Greenbrier County, West Virginia operating as Seasons Place Assisted Living. On June 1, 2021 they terminated my client, Stephanie McCutcheon, for refusing to take an unapproved non-mandatory vaccine for COVID-19. Our legal theory is a state-law based

My appearance on the Tom Roton Show this morning, discussing the vaccine mandate lawsuit. I explain some of the real numbers you don’t learn from the media and our benevolent government. #EmployerMandates #CivilRightsLaw #RightToPrivacy Link to the interview podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-tom-roten-morning-show-70632979/episode/civil-rights-attorney-files-suit-over-83394534/?cmp=web_share&embed=true&pname=fb&campid=s&keyid=120561585 More information on the lawsuit here: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2021/06/03/lawsuit-filed-against-chicago-company-for-mandating-the-vaccination-of-west-virginia-employees/ source

Today my colleague from Kentucky, Chris Wiest, received an awesome ruling from the Circuit Court of Boone County declaring that all of Governor Andy Bashear’s emergency orders and actions are unconstitutional and void. The ruling was in the state-court challenge to the governor’s emergency powers executive orders, filed by Wiest on behalf of Beans Cafe’