Using pleasure, whimsey to defend right to travel
The ideas of liberty of movement are worth exploring because they are positive benefit to Chattanooga and Hamilton County and and encouragement of capitalism and entrepreneurship. By David Tulis / 92.7 NoogaRadio As we have seen in transportation administrative notice, the freedom of movement has a keyword. That is pleasure. The roads exist for the […]
City attorney Noblett listens to claims about right to travel, limits on cop power
In a meeting with the city attorney’s office I bring up the question of whether ChattyWagon is involved in transportation. Transportation is carrying goods or people for profit and gain and for hire. The Chattanooga tourist business gives rides for free so that it might advertise for its sponsors (free speech). The city attorney argues […]
Pinkston prosecutorial practice: ‘No constitutional “right to travel,”’ & that’s that
Neal Pinkston, state prosecutor in Hamilton County, Tenn. (Photo WDEF.com) Tennessee court policy denies any right to travel exists, except in one instance. And that is the “individual right to move between states,” to change one’s domicile from Tennessee, say, to Florida. That’s the point made by Neal Pinkston, the elected state’s attorney in Hamilton […]
Passport Challenge event in city brings Hispanic right to travel into view
Gladys Pineda-Loher and Jim Coppinger, the mayor of Hamilton County, Tenn., promote a Latin event under the heading of “passports.” (Photo Facebook) Part of the prosperity and security of people in the home county here in Southeast Tennessee is the right of free movement. By that I mean not just the power of relocation and […]
‘Fiddle Man’ of Lawrenceburg demands verdict be overturned, right to travel
A woman gets a ride on a tractor at a fair in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., in which a court on Thursday will consider grinding a free user of the public roads beneath its treads. (Photo Yesterdaystrators.com) The man convicted by a jury on four criminal counts is Arthur Jay Hirsch, 65, a bachelor whose livelihood is […]
The orphaned right: How states squelched Americans’ right to travel
States by myriad efforts to regulate the use of cars like these on Brainerd Road in Chattanooga slowly whittled away the right to travel by car, converting its use to a privilege. Attorney Roger Isaac Roots is a legal scholar, criminologist and civil liberties activities who lives in Livingston, Mont. He has written many scholarly […]
1997 Tenn. case says you have right to travel, but not by car
Stops like this one in Florence, S.C., are points of conflict between free users of the road and the state/police licensing apparatus. (Photo cityofflorence.com) By David Tulis Below is a court opinion in Tennessee that pertains to the driver’s license issue. The court lays it out in spades: driving is a privilege, and not a […]
1997 Tenn. case says you have right to travel, but not in motor vehicle
Stops like this one in Florence, S.C., are points of conflict between free users of the road and the state/police licensing apparatus. (Photo cityofflorence.com) By David Tulis / Noogaradio 92.7 Below is a court opinion in Tennessee that pertains to the driver’s license issue. The court lays it out in spades: driving is a privilege, […]
Judges’ trick on ‘right to travel’ defied by hard-of-hearing motorists
Tennessee courts have ruled that every use of a car is “the driving of a motor vehicle,” and that this act is subject to licensure and regulation, regardless of whether the motorist is operating in commerce. A Hixson man is challenging this claim. By David Tulis The battle of local economy is one in which […]
Bill clarifies rights of travel, policing of transportation in N.H.
A bill by Rep. Dick Marple in New Hampshire retains police power over trucking and transportation, but bans cops from enforcing the transportation statute on people not involved in for-hire use of the roads. (Photo Bizfluent.com) A bill before the New Hampshire general assembly would codify the common law right of free movement on the […]