ALERT: #170
DATE: April 23, 2008
TO: Incline Village & Crystal Bay Property Owners
FROM: Village League Tax Revolt Committee

Dear Incline Village & Crystal Bay Property Taxpayers,

Many of you have suggested, over the last six years of this battle, that we file a Complaint in Federal Court. WE JUST DID!! This afternoon, Attorney Fulstone filed a Complaint for Injunctive Relief against Washoe County, the Washoe County Assessor, Josh Wilson, and the Washoe County Treasurer, Bill Berrum.

This legal action pleads that the Federal Court find as follows:

1. That the Court determine, adjudge and declare that, in valuing residential real property at Incline Village and Crystal Bay, Lake Tahoe, for the 2008-2009 tax year, the Washoe County Assessor failed to follow the valuation methodologies promulgated by the Nevada Tax Commission for uniform use throughout all seventeen counties in Nevada, that the resulting valuations and assessments violate the Nevada and U.S. Constitutions and Nevada statutes, and that any tax bills based on those valuations/assessments are unconstitutional and void;
2. That the Court determine, adjudge and declare that the plaintiff homeowner taxpayers and other similarly situated homeowner taxpayers have no plain, speedy, efficient or otherwise adequate remedy under state law from the unconstitutional valuation and assessment of their properties or from the unconstitutional and excessive tax bills based on that unconstitutional valuation and assessment;
3. That the Court enter an order preliminarily and permanently enjoining Defendant Washoe County Treasurer Bill Berrum from collecting any taxes on any residential real property at Lake Tahoe, in Washoe County for the tax year 2008-2009 based or calculated on the unconstitutional valuations and resulting unconstitutional assessments;
4. That Plaintiffs be awarded costs of this action and their reasonable attorney’s fees; and
5. That Plaintiffs be awarded such other and further relief as they may be adjudged entitled to in the premises.

HOW DOES THIS AFFECT US?

The six named Plaintiffs, “… are owners of real property at Lake Tahoe, in Washoe County, Nevada, and are bringing this action for themselves and other similarly situated taxpayers.”

This is a “class action” lawsuit on behalf of all of the residential real property owners in the Incline Village and Crystal Bay area.
YES, YOU ARE INCLUDED!!! And, you are being represented by Attorney Suellen Fulstone.

We all owe a debt of gratitude to the Plaintiffs who allowed their names and properties to be used in an effort to protect your constitutional rights; as well as to our Attorney, Suellen Fulstone, who agreed to undertake this herculean task.

The full Complaint can be accessed by clicking on the following link: www.nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/08/VillageLeagueComplaint.pdf

Please do not telephone Attorney Fulstone; she is unbelievably busy, as you can imagine. However, a note of thanks would certainly be appropriate.

Suellen Fulstone
C/o Morris, Pickering and Peterson
6100 Neil Road – Suite 555
Reno, NV 89511

Email: sf@morrislawgroup.com

Fax: 775-829-6001

We told you to watch your Alerts for an important announcement that was to come. This is as important as it can get!!!

Stay tuned!!

Sincerely,