Property Rights
Drug Dealing and Legal Stealing
The feds try to take a family-owned motel because some of its guests behaved badly.
Philly Plans Eminent Domain To Displace Private Projects With City Ones
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."
Supreme Court Pays Closer Attention to Property Rights Cases
At Greenwire, Lawrence Hurley reports on a very interesting development at the U.S. Supreme Court.
California Kills Eminent Domain, Somehow Buildings Happen Anyway
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.
Opponents of Virginia's Eminent Domain Initiative Made the Best Case for It
Making life easier for government is not a good reason to infringe individual rights.
Men Arrested for "Hoarding" Gasoline
Otherwise known as buying a couple of gallons for your friends
Dallas Settles With Woman Over Valuable Land
Patch of grass outside new convention center hotel will go for $162 per square foot
Calif. City Bans Vacation Rentals
Seal Beach will decide how residents use their own property
CA Government Agency Steals Beachfront Property
It's cheaper than actually buying a nice view
Poland Wins World Bank Kudos for Improving Business Environment
Everything from contracts to property rights has been made clearer and easier
Owners of Famous Home Assert Property Rights Against Landmark Designation
Preservationists may just have to put up money for what they want
MA Town Signs Off on Eminent Domain for Private Use
The whole private property thing is iffy in Massachusetts
Property Rights Fall When Government, Gas Companies Join Together
What's a little corporatism between friends?
Protecting Property Rights from the Army Corps of Engineers
The Supreme Court prepares to hear a major Takings Clause case.
Wineries Challenge Burdensome Land-Use Restrictions
In the middle of an economic slump, why not strangle growing local businesses?
DC Officials Ban Drink
You will no longer be able to order a Marion Berry's Dirty Asian Summer Punch from The Pug
Land Grabs in the Developing World
How powerful interests seize land from peasants, pastoralists, and others around the globe
Why Asset Forfeiture Abuse Is on the Rise
It's time to build a wall of separation between government power and the profit motive.
Scenes from the Drug War: DEA Secretly Commandeers Truck, Gets Driver Killed
Company owner did not authorize use, is trying to get reimbursed and fears for his family.
