Jennine Labuzan would not sign one piece of paper, so a federal judge sent the U.S. Marshals for her. She spent two weeks in a jail cell this year. She was never charged with a crime.
She started digging into her family tree after years of hearing relatives say the names of people long gone. The search turned up federal records showing her third great grandfather, Charles Augustus Labuzan, bought into 1,361 acres in Washington County, Mississippi with two partners in 1836. The patent says the land goes to heirs and assigns forever.
She filed her petition in 2022 and she has represented herself the whole way.
The courts ruled against her at every level, up to the Supreme Court, which would not hear it. A judge ordered her to sign a quitclaim deed giving up her claim. She said no, and the judge held her in contempt.
They moved her from Georgia to Tennessee to Mississippi. She went in on June 5. She came out on June 23 and she still had not signed. The judge signed the land away without her.
She has another case running over 94 acres of that same land. In July a judge let it move forward.
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This week’s Supreme Court decision is another reminder of what we are up against heading into November.
They can put more obstacles in our way, but they cannot take away our power. Our answer is to show up, make our voices heard, and turn out in numbers that are too big to rig.