Riviera Beach
The Supremes hear the Lozman Case.
October 22, 2012
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After a nightmarish 3 ½ year climb through the Southern Federal District Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, I reached the summit on Monday October 1. Sitting in the United States Supreme Court chambers when my case was called for oral argument, the first of the Court’s 2012 term, I felt a remarkable sense of peace and calmness.
Continue Reading →City Buys Activist’s Home
February 10, 2010
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It wasn’t enough that the City of Riveria Beach used the federal government to seize activist Fane Lozman’s floating home (wrongfully, I believe). Yesterday, it bought the houseboat at auction, apparently for the sole purpose of destroying it. When Lozman’s home was being auctioned at the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, a lawyer representing Riviera Beach put in the high bid to pur
Continue Reading →Targeting Citizen Lozman
December 13, 2007
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After police dogged him for months, after the city tried to kick him out of his home, and after he was arrested for simply speaking at a commission meeting, local activist Fane Lozman thought the City of Riviera Beach just might be out to get him. Now, thanks to the release of a previously secret city transcript, he knows city officials were out to get him. The transcript — of a closed-door meetin
Continue Reading →Witness for the Defense
March 07, 2007
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I testified in the Palm Beach County Courthouse last week about a column I wrote. I did so voluntarily, despite the fact that I have fought hard — even risked jail time — many times to keep from taking the stand in the past. Now, do you hear that sound off in the distance? It’s a bunch of veteran newspaper pros all groaning in unison. They’re the purists, and to them a reporter willful
Continue Reading →Activist Jailed In Riviera Beach
November 16, 2006
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Fane Lozman was arrested at Riviera Beach City Hall last night for … speaking at a commission meeting. Lozman, the houseboat-living activist who has been fighting the city to stop their eminent domain effort for a massive redevelopment of the city’s waterfront area, was called up to the podium at about 8:30 p.m. to have his say. He began by bringing up indicted former Palm Beach County
Continue Reading →City Bites Dog
August 24, 2006
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The day after my column about Riviera Beach political activist Fane Lozman hit the streets, the city sent him an eviction letter. Maybe, but whether it was tied to my report doesn’t change the fact that the City of Riviera Beach is engaging in a shameless game of retaliation against a man who is challenging its $2.4 billion redevelopment plan. Since Lozman filed a lawsuit to stop the city
Continue Reading →Witness for the Intimidation
August 10, 2006
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When I went to see Fane Lozman on his houseboat, I really didn’t know what to expect. I knew Lozman had tangled with officials in North Bay Village a couple of years ago. That ended with the indictment of a city councilman and the resignation of the town’s police chief. The Miami New Times called Lozman, admiringly, an “avenging angel.” But he’d moved on from North Ba
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The Fane Lozman Story
This is a true story of a persistent and tenacious underdog who fought against the governmental seizure of 2200 homes and businesses in 2006 only to see that same government arrest and destroy his floating home three years later, for an alleged failure to pay one month’s rent at the marina. Fane Lozman did not give up but continued the improbable climb from a county court eviction case to the US Supreme Court.
Honors and Awards
Voted not once, not twice, but three times as “Best Of” by the New Times Broward/Palm Beach.
- 2012 Best Lawsuit- Fane Lozman vs. the City of Riviera Beach, Florida
- 2007 – Best Political Activist
- 2007 – Personal Best
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