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3 weeks ago | 
ij.org | Nichole Norris
The Institute for Justice filed a petition yesterday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case against Humboldt County over its cannabis abatement program.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
kymkemp.com | Nichole Norris
Full Disclosure- This is an opinion piece and the writer is actively working closely with the residents and owner of Yee Haw to help bring about solutions that help save the Village, and she worked for the Law Offices of Eugene Denson until April 2024, to help negotiate solutions to the abatement. On September 10, a notice appeared on the gate of the Yee Haw intentional community in Trinidad, signaling the county’s plans to move forward with an abatement originally issued in 2017.
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May 30, 2024 | 
kymkemp.com | Nichole Norris
What began in the hills of rural Humboldt County, in the law office of late attorney Eugene Denson, and was reported on here, at the Redheaded Blackbelt, has struck a chord with a national and international audiences in both the Daily Mail and the US Sun.
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May 30, 2024 | 
kymkemp.com | Nichole Norris
Lawsuit Filed With the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Claims, ‘Humboldt County fines people millions of dollars for things they didn’t do’ “The County charges people with cannabis-adjacent offenses based on permitting violations on their property. Under the guise of nuisance-abatement orders, it fines them millions of dollars while it denies them the permits they need to “abate” the violations. People who appeal wait years for hearings that never come.
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May 4, 2024 | 
kymkemp.com | Nichole Norris
In a pivotal meeting Thursday night before the Planning Commission, Humboldt County’s Planning and Building Department unveiled long anticipated data gauging the pulse of the cannabis industry and detailing the changes in cultivation regulation and enforcement.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
kymkemp.com | Nichole Norris
In a landmark hearing last Tuesday at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, plaintiffs embroiled in a federal class-action lawsuit against Humboldt County’s controversial cannabis abatement program voiced their grievances before a court for the first time. The case, which challenges the constitutionality of the county’s enforcement approach, highlights significant due process concerns under U.S. law.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
kymkemp.com | Nichole Norris
On December 31, a local mother, Zoe Pernod, went missing from her Myers Flat home. Reports from her fiancé and child’s father, David Boyett, indicate that Zoe started acting strangely a little over three weeks ago, right after she stopped breastfeeding their baby…He and others believe Zoe may be suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
kymkemp.com | Nichole Norris
This week the Institute of Justice (IJ) responded to the County’s statement in the federal class action lawsuit against Humboldt County’s cannabis abatement program now that the suit is in the court of appeals. IJ represents those who claim they were victimized by the County Abatement program. The appeals process calls for three filings, the third of which was just filed. This most recent filing is the Reply to the County’s Response to IJ’s initial brief on the appeal.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
kymkemp.com | Nichole Norris
The wheels of justice grind on slowly in the class action lawsuit against the county’s cannabis abatement program. Thomas v County of Humboldt is inching its way through the appeals process after being dismissed in the trial court May 12. The Institute for Justice, representing plaintiffs Corrine and Doug Thomas, Rhonda Olson, Cyro Glad and Blu Graham, on behalf of the class, filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit on September 21.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
kymkemp.com | Nichole Norris
This November 5th marked the 27th anniversary of California’s Compassionate Use Act, Proposition 215, the first law in the nation to permit medicinal marijuana use. November 9th also marked seven years since voters approved Proposition 64, which legalized commercial cannabis and adult use in the state.
