Recent News
CBS12: Riviera property owner fights for address, suing city
WPTV: Floating home owner drops anchor off Singer Island, requests address for property from city
Documents reveal Sunshine Law violations among City Council
WPTV: Inventor proposes floating home community in Riviera Beach
New Times: Houseboat Community to Go Up Near Singer Island, Fane Lozman Insists
The Long Road to the United States Supreme Court
Miami Herald: Supreme Court says South Florida man’s floating home isn’t a boat
AP: Floating home not covered under maritime law
NYTimes: It May Float, but a Home Isn’t a Boat, Justices Rule.
PBPost: Fane Lozman, winner in Supreme Court case against Riviera Beach, calls it ‘an amazing day’
NPR: Supreme Court: Floating Home Still A Man’s Castle
Riviera Beach
Sun-Sentinel: Despite Supreme Court victory, wrecked houseboat’s owner still fighting
New Times: Chief Justice Roberts says Lozman’s case was his favorite.
USA Today: High Court: Not every floating home is a boat.
A “Lozman Wins” banner flies above local dignataries.
North Bay Village
Fane Lozman Accuses North Bay Village Commission Of Violating Sunshine Law In Strip Club War
Palm Beach Sun
Supreme Court Agrees to hear Lozman Floating Home Case
Videos
WPTV: Inventor proposes floating home community in Riviera Beach
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. – Twenty one acres of Intracoastal Waterway near Riviera Beach could be home to a new floating neighborhood called “The Renegade.”
U.S. Marine turned millionaire inventor Fane Lozman says the floating home development is his latest project.
Sun-Sentinel: Despite Supreme Court victory, wrecked houseboat’s owner still fighting
Judge Dimitrouleas ruled on Wednesday that Lozman would have to file in state court to pursue a claim for damages against the city.
Who says admiralty cases are boring?
Watch US Supreme Court Justice John Roberts speak about his favorite 2012 Term case — aka Lozman v Riviera Beach.
By a vote of seven to two, the US Supreme Courts rules in Lozman’s favor.
SCOTUSblog Coverage
Read all of the Parties’ briefs on SCOTUSBlog.
Honors and Awards
They say the man who represents himself has a fool for a client, but this long-running David-and-Goliath case just might end with a local government looking like the fool.
It all started in 2006, when Lozman, a retired Chicago financier with plenty of money to burn on justice, claimed he had been illegally evicted from his floating home in Riviera Beach because of his activism against last-minute plans to sell the marina to a developer using eminent domain. He won that case, but the city stayed on his heels, coming after him with all kinds of accusations (he owed fees to the marina; his ten-pound dachshund was too dangerous). Lozman resisted, and — long story short — the feds towed away his house.
Last year, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal authorities had the right to do so, since his house was technically a vessel, subject to federal maritime law. Lozman balked at the ruling — his house, since destroyed, didn’t even have engines or steering — and petitioned the highest court in the land to decide what, exactly, distinguishes a boat from a house. The court picked his case, and it will be heard in October.
Fane Lozman’s SCANSHIFT
SCANSHIFT™ is a revolutionary patented quote display system that allows the user to absorb market information and changing market conditions with a degree of mental and visual efficiency never before available.
