Jeremy Morris is known as the Christmas Lawyer because every year he used to throw a huge celebration with more lights than you can image on his home in Hayden, Idaho. And that’s not all: he added real camels, sheep, costumes, and a live nativity along with music to the mix. He loved it, the community loved it, his HOA and some of the neighbors hated it. And him.

He even worked with locals for a deal to create a parking lot for any tourists who wanted to see the Morris house display without requiring them to drive through the housing development. It seemed the Christmas Lawyer thought of everything. But the Grinchy HOA and some nasty neighbors weren’t having it.

“Morris said his family received threats, including an in-person confrontation partially caught on camera in which a neighbor offered to “take care of him.”

Morris said he never wanted to take legal action and offered to waive his rights to proceed with a lawsuit if the HOA agreed to leave his family alone. The HOA refused, he said, and the statute of limitations was almost up.

So in January 2017, two years after receiving the first letter from the HOA, he sued, alleging religious discrimination in violation of the Fair Housing Act.” Fox

The HOA continued to send letters, and the neighbors harassed him until he had no choice but to sue them. I interviewed him in 2016, as he only lived about 10 miles from my house back then. In 2017, a jury awarded Jeremy $75,000. But the story wasn’t over. The situation ended up in courts for years after a federal judge reversed that ruling, ordered Jeremy to never do another Christmas display and pay the HOA $111,000.

Good thing Jeremy is a lawyer.

Eventually, he was forced to move from the home where he displayed the Christmas Story. He still owns the home, but he has no plans to ever display to hateful people again.

He even did a short film in 2021 about meeting Chevy Chase, who played “Clark Griswold” from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

As of this writing in 2025, he settled with the HOA for much, much more than the original $75,000. What did he do with all the money? He put it back into a different Christmas display. The HOA lost dramatically. It was an epic win for the Christmas Story and the Christmas Lawyer who wanted to tell it.

GRINCH PAYS UP: Idaho lawyer Jeremy Morris tells Fox News Digital that he settled with his HOA for significantly more than the original $75,000 jury award after years of legal battles — and he’s spending the money on even more holiday decorations.

“I’m buying a lot of Christmas… pic.twitter.com/LHWAFtL1M0

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 24, 2025

For Jeremy Morris, the Christmas Lawyer, the victory was for Jesus as well. The displays, the lights, the drama, were all about telling the story of His birth. Jesus won.

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