NPRI Litigation Arm Launches 2nd Lawsuit

Recently the Nevada Policy Research Institute's (NPRI) Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigation (CJCL) fired a shot across the bow of Nevada's entrenched interests by filing a lawsuit to force the state to enforce the separation of powers doctrine in its Constitution.

Today, NPRI announced another action by CJCL, a suit against the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife. The Department had rerouted two streams near the Patch of Heaven Camp operated by Ministerio Roco Solida Church in Amargosa Valley. The camp later suffered significant damage from flooding as a result.

The church's pastor, Victor Fuentes, is a Cuban immigrant who was granted political asylum after swimming to Guantanamo Bay twenty years ago.

“I am an immigrant from Cuba who risked death to escape Castro’s regime, only now I am in a country overrun by a federal government that reminds me of the horrors from which I fled,” said Fuentes. “In Cuba, I had this beautiful image of America as a place of freedom and liberty, but after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recklessly damaged our property through its irresponsible actions, that image has changed.”

This is one of a legion of cases of government overreach that harms private individuals and groups and against which most of the victims are unable to fight back. Thanks to NPRI and its CJCL we will now have a chance to rein in some of these abuses.