MAURICE THOMPSON
Property Rights
Taxpayer Rights
Free Speech
Healthcare Freedom
Entrepreneurs' Rights
Parental Rights
Ohio’s Only Full-time Lawyer For Liberty & Constitutional Rights
Maurice Thompson has litigated high-impact constitutional rights cases across Ohio since founding the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law in 2008.
Focusing on property rights, taxpayers’ rights, entrepreneurial rights, health freedom, free speech, Maurice has defeated state and local regulations across the spectrum, ranging from pandemic shutdowns, overreaching eminent domain, and abusive zoning to forced medical treatments, interior home inspections, unlawful taxes and fees, and “public” school corruption. His Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment and Ohio Estate Tax Elimination Act have become law, as have his words in numerous legislative acts limiting government.
Maurice evens the playing field for Ohioans in these high-stakes battles by refusing to charge fees or accept payment from clients.
Maurice does not accept phone calls, but does respond to emails illustrating alignment with the values and strategies of the 1851 Center at MThompson@OhioConstitution.org.
"AN ATTORNEY WHO TAKES ON STATUS QUO POWERS ON A WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES."
–Plunderbund
"A LOCAL HERO, IF THERE EVER WAS ONE."
-Andrew Napolitano, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst
"MAURICE HAS NEVER BEEN ELECTED TO OFFICE, BUT HIS WORDS ARE A PART OF THE OHIO CONSTITUTION."
-Toledo Blade
Highlights
- Maurice protects Airbnb Hosts and Guests from Ohio Cities
- Maurice Ends Cincinnati’s Prohibition On Security Alarms And “User Fees” For Police Protection
- Maurice Protects Ohio Landlords From Unconstitutional CDC Eviction Moratorium
- Maurice Helps Ohio General Assembly Put Teeth In Legislation Ending Governor’s Abusive Emergency Powers
- Maurice Overturns Closure Of Ohio Restaurants For Alleged Mask Violations
- Maurice Ends Pandemic Shutdowns Of Ohio Amusement And Water Parks
- Maurice Ends Pandemic Shutdowns Of Ohio Gyms
- Maurice Stops Criminal Prosecution Of Ohio Restaurants Operating During The Pandemic
- Maurice Defeats City’s Zoning Regulation Preventing More Than Three Unrelated People From Living Together
- Maurice Ends Ohio Cities’ Abusive Regulations Forbidding Sale Of Homes Without Intrusive And Arbitrary Home Inspections
- Maurice Protects Ohio Business Owners From Sweeping State Inspections Of Private Business Records
- Maurice Stops Ohio Cities From Fining Residents $100 Per Day For Displaying Yard Signs
- Maurice Forces Ohio Cities To Return Hundreds Of Thousands In Illegal Inspection Fees To Thousands Of Ohio Homeowners
- Maurice Protects Ohio Farmers From Private Pipeline Attempting To Seize Their Land Through Eminent Domain
- Maurice Defeats Illegal Property Tax In Ohio Supreme Court, Forces Return Of $5.5 Million To School District’s Taxpayers
- Maurice Ends Ohio Cities’ Abusive Warrantless Interior Inspections Of Rental Homes
- Maurice Protects Amish Daughter From Government-forced Chemotherapy
- Maurice Checks Abusive “Quick-take” Method Of Seizing Ohioans’ Land Without A Hearing
- Maurice Topples Arbitrary Ohio Limits On Signature-gathering For Initiatives And Referendums
- Maurice Ends Free Speech Limits On University Of Cincinnati Students
- Maurice Drafts Health Care Freedom Amendment, Forces Government To Place It On Ballot, Ohio Voters Overwhelmingly Approve It On Election Day
- Maurice’s “Ohio Estate Tax Elimination Act” Becomes Law: Ohio’s Worst-in-the-nation Estate Tax Repealed
- Maurice’s Ohio Supreme Court Win Stops Ohio School Districts From Preventing Old School Buildings From Being Used As Private And Charter Schools
- Maurice Stops City’s Threats Targeting Taxpayers Opposing Its Tax Hike