Tags: Property Rights

The justices prepare to hear a major 5th Amendment case.

The decision could set new, more restrictive standards for the practice

How our ancestors got fat & happy

The feds try to take a family-owned motel because some of its guests behaved badly.

It's customary, when discussing eminent domain, to allow that it's a necessary use of state power that enhances the good of the community, before then going on to discuss whatever horrendous abuse is being committed this week through the application of the government's ability to take private property for "public use."

At Greenwire, Lawrence Hurley reports on a very interesting development at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Politicians, city planners, and developers have long argued that without the power to seize property from unwilling sellers economic development would grind to a halt.

Making life easier for government is not a good reason to infringe individual rights.