Protecting Your Right to Share Your Home
Case Status
Date Filed
November 15, 2016
Last Step
The City moved to dismiss Plaintiffs’ challenge to Chicago’s ban on single night rentals.
Next Step
Cook County Circuit Court to hear arguments on motion to dismiss.
Case Overview
The Goldwater Institute and the Liberty Justice Center filed this case to protect the rights of people who want to offer their private homes to overnight guests, but who have been deprived of the right to do so by a complicated new Chicago ordinance that imposes confusing and unfair new prohibitions on home-sharing.
Those restrictions hurt communities and violate the constitutional rights of responsible homeowners.
Case Documents
Legal Team
Christina Sandefur
Christina Sandefur is the Executive Vice President at the Goldwater Institute. She develops policies and litigates cases advancing healthcare freedom, free enterprise, private property rights, free speech, and taxpayer rights. Christina is a co-drafter of the Right to Try initiative, now federal law, which protects terminally ill patients' right to try safe investigational treatments that… Read more...
Timothy Sandefur
Timothy Sandefur is the Vice President for Legal Affairs at the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation and holds the Duncan Chair in Constitutional Government. He litigates to promote economic liberty, private property rights, free speech, and other crucial values in states across the country. Timothy is the author of eight books, including most… Read more...
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