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The NAM filed an amicus brief supporting the rights of property owners to access state courts in a dispute regarding third-party trespassers. The owner sought relief from trespass, under state law in a Nevada trial court after the defendants, a labor organization, used projection bombing to beam giant images onto the owner’s property. Effective trespass laws are necessary to protect property owners from trespass. The NAM’s brief argued that 1) the “photobombers” effectively took control of the physical space on which the image was displayed; 2) that state law property claims are not preempted by federal labor laws; 3) labor speech is not privileged over other types of speech; and 4) projection onto private property not only constitutes trespass but also takes property owners’ fundamental ownership rights. Unfortunately, the Nevada Supreme Court declined to hear this appeal.