Supreme Court Continues to Avoid Eminent Domain Cases Post Kelo
“On Monday, the Supreme Court had a prime opportunity to give additional force to Kennedy’s words and instead declined to review a glaring case of eminent domain abuse from Guam. At issue in Ilagan v. Ungacta was a land seizure by the government, ostensibly for “public” purposes, but which in fact appears to have been carried out for the benefit of one person and one person only, the local mayor, who owned a residential lot that happened to lack access to a road. Under the eminent domain proceedings, the mayor’s neighbor lost a portion of his property and the mayor gained road access.”
Root, Damon Rason.com 16 April 2013.