My Irish ancestors were illegal immigrants driven out of Ireland by the English and starvation in 1847. During the potato famines the English overlords decided to let the market resolve the overpopulation problem in Ireland. The effect cleared the Irish lands for English colonists.

Every wave of immigration is caused by conquest, war, famine, or death. The immigrants’ aspiration is to survive. Immigrants bring vitality to our country.

Immigration Law is a good fit because Dooley has traveled in Africa, Central Asia, Europe and Latin America. He enjoys languages and has conversational abilities in German, Spanish, and Arabic.

Since he began solo law practice in 1976, Fintan L. Dooley, Esq., has dedicated himself to helping individuals, laborers, businesses and municipalities find solutions to governmental infringement of their property, civil and constitutional rights.

You can sue the government and its agents for violations of your constitutional, personal and property rights. He has successfully brought claims against:

Municipalities:

• Defects in municipal sewage systems
• Violation of First Amendment Rights
• Police Misconduct
• Zoning Violations
• Excessive Property Taxes
• Eminent Domain

Counties:

• Breach of Public Trust Duties by County Officials
• Zoning Violations
• Police Misconduct

State:

• Breach of Duty to maintain safe highways in The Bakken
• Eminent Domain
• Civil Rights

 Federal:

• Wrongful Death of Native Americans
• Police Misconduct
• Eminent Domain
• Civil Rights

Fintan Dooley is a graduate of the University of North Dakota Law School where he studied Natural Resources, Property and Environmental Law. He, with Prof. Robert E. Beck, the North Dakota Farmer’s Union, and the United Plainsmen surveyed Coal, Oil and Gas Leasing Practices and convened UND Law School’s First Energy Law Symposium.

Dooley’s is a graduate of NDSU where he studied Botany and Chemistry. He interned at the USDA Research stations in Mandan and Fargo studying grazing land and wheat varieties resistant to lodging. He worked in oil drilling operations on and offshore and in open pit iron and underground mines. He worked in US Steel smelting operations. He understands the environmental impacts of industrial scale resource developments.

He is author of two Public Trust Doctrine cases in North Dakota. The first was called United Plainsmen v. North Dakota Water Conservation, 247 N.W. 2d 457 (N.D. 1976). The second involved an effort to save the McLean County Court House. He is at work on a third soon to be filed against the North Dakota Industrial Commissioners, the Governor, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Agriculture, the Oil and Gas Commissioner, and the remediation officer for their breaches of their trustee duties. Officials do not require gauging of saltwater and do not keep accounts of salt water spilled in the fracturing process.

He welcomes eminent domain, chemical poisoning, pollution cases, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death claims.