Buying Blight
Eminent domain abuse
Suing the property owner and advertiser
The justices prepare to hear a major 5th Amendment case.
The decision could set new, more restrictive standards for the practice
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.
Otherwise known as buying a couple of gallons for your friends
Patch of grass outside new convention center hotel will go for $162 per square foot
Seal Beach will decide how residents use their own property
It's cheaper than actually buying a nice view
Everything from contracts to property rights has been made clearer and easier
Preservationists may just have to put up money for what they want
The whole private property thing is iffy in Massachusetts
What's a little corporatism between friends?
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