This situation , “IS” the reason that I did not rejoin CSS . Some of you may not realize that if the landowner decided to file a lawsuit … (this is important) ; that landowner could go after each and every member of CSS, instead of just the club as a whole. How do I know this (?) ; it happened to my brother  !

Bille

There is no right answer here… Realistically, the land-owner could do whatever they want (try to sue every member of the CSS), but that is very unlikely because there is no way they could prove specific actions by individuals.  That’s one reason why the CSS is organized as 501 c(3), they could bring a suit against the CSS as an organization, but its not realistic to sue members as individuals.

In any case, the Landowner has gone through the ‘official’ eviction process with the Sheriff’s office.  The Squatter has been served an eviction notice as of last week.  He has until mid-December to vacate the premises or he will be arrested.

He can’t move onto CSS property because it’s State property, he would be immediately trespassed and arrested, no long-term eviction process would be required.  Same can be said if he tries to relocate to other privately owned properties that are adjacent to the LZ.

It’s not a happy situation, but the cold hard truth is that the guy has the past 10 years to get on his feet and do something to improve his life situation.  He has been shown a considerable amount of charity from CSS members who just didn’t want to see him starve or die in the elements, but he has chosen to throw that goodwill back into the faces of everyone involved by insisting on living illegally on someone else’s property for free (for life) and continuing to get all his other resources for free – while never having any intention of ever doing anything to realistically change his situation.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Billie,

I don’t know what situation affected your brother, but there was a recent case on the east coast (Connecticut or Massachusetts I think), where PG’s were flying over some rich guy’s house on a cliff.  Rich guy asked them to stop but the pilots wouldn’t work with him on the issue and got antagonistic (just one side of the story).  Anyway, rich guy sues them but finds out they call themselves a club but the club is not official, there is no legal organized entity on file.  So rich guy sues all the members as individuals.  He doesn’t sue for money and he did win.  I’m not sure what the findings were (or if it even matters), the insurance company won’t share the details.  Anyway, the Rich Guy didn’t sue for money so I guess all he wanted was to stop them from flying over his house, but the actual point of this story is that cost the insurance company A LOT to defend 30 separate cases instead of just one.  So that’s why about 2 years ago USHPA put out the direction that all Clubs must organize into official non-profits to avoid this situation again.