Thread: Ariz. rancher trying to get land back from the courts

Ariz. rancher trying to get land back from the courts


by Ryan O'Donnell

Posted on May 31, 2011 at 8:54 PM

Updated today at 9:12 PM


TUCSON, Ariz. – Casey Nethercott is in a Cochise County Superior court room hoping to get his ranch back.

The courts took Nethercott’s 70-acre ranch near Douglas away from him in 2005 and gave it to two illegal immigrants to help satisfy a lawsuit.

"This is illegal," said Nethercott in court on Tuesday. "Unwarranted and if it happened again in another courtroom, those lawyers could possibly be arrested."

In 2003, Nethercott was part of a border patrol vigilante group called "Ranch Rescue."

He stopped two illegal immigrants in Texas who alleged Nethercott threatened and pistol-whipped them. Nethercott was never convicted of those crimes but was sent to prison in Texas for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.

In 2006 Arizona voters passed a constitutional amendment to prevent anyone in the country illegally from collecting punitive damages in a legal case no matter what happens to them.

Then in April, Governor Jan Brewer added to the law making it retroactive to 2004. Brewer’s move helped prop the door open for Nethercott to try and get his land back.

Nethercott said, "This law states that illegal’s do not and will not come into this country and take American homes. Our House signed it. Our Senate signed it and our governor signed it."

According to the Cochise County judge, there were a few problems with Nethercott’s argument and therefore ruled against him.

Jana Flagler is a lawyer representing the Southern Poverty Law Center. It’s the group that helped the immigrants in the lawsuit.

"Mr. Nethercott’s cause of action accrued too early," Flagler said. "Also no punitive damages were awarded against Mr. Nethercott in Texas, only compensatory damages so the argument of the plaintiffs is that the law also didn't apply for that reason."

3TV tried to get a comment from Nethercott after the judge’s ruling but he was unavailable.

Nethercott Complaint
http://images.bimedia.net/documents/...-Paperwork.pdf

www.azfamily.com

he should get his land Back who the hell is the illegal Immigrants
think they are they should not be On his land . they don't they walk let the illegal Immigrants walk On the wh ?
would it be ok ?
I don't think so
so wake the hell Up it his land SB fight for it
this Is American Not Mexico . it his Land he pay tax for it .
Good luck to the Rancher
No amnesty

I read the PDF link. The words they use in it instead of illegal alien is "Latino traveler." The whole thing reads like something you'd read in Mad magazine.

Originally Posted by Mayday

I read the PDF link. The words they use in it instead of illegal alien is "Latino traveler." The whole thing reads like something you'd read in Mad magazine.

it sure does