Letter to the Editor: No more eminent domain for private gain
“The following is rural Ontario resident Patricia Conway’s comment for a public hearing on the Badger-Coulee Tranmisson Proposal. There is a movement across the country to revise state laws so that private companies like American…
RI Group Claims That RhodeMap RI Could Open Door for Eminent Domain Abuse
“Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity claims that a law from 2008 may open the door for domain abuses and property seizures by the government who would be able to construct “growth centers” just…
Property Rights Group Urges Brown To Veto Redevelopment 2.0
“An influential property rights group has released a new radio ad campaign urging Governor Jerry Brown to veto three bills that would bring back California’s abusive redevelopment agencies. The California Alliance to Protect Private Property…
Ombudsman to mediate VDOT eminent domain disputes
“Property takeover disputes are prompting change within the Virginia Department of Transportation. The most recent dispute involves a Portsmouth business being forced to make way for the Martin Luther King Expressway. The battle is over…
Culture can help tame eminent domain abuse
“The Constitution once limited how governments could use eminent domain, but post-Kelo, that’s no longer the case. Officials routinely lock arms with corporations or billionaires to forcibly transfer property from one private owner to another,…
Urban renewal on trial: Eminent domain case pries veil off downtown redevelopment
“After listening to the city’s lawyers repeatedly press his client about the timing of his challenge to the $9 million downtown Grand Rapids urban renewal plan, Harold Sawyer finally had enough. Sawyer, a well known…
A resurgence of eminent domain abuse
“The Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which allowed state and local governments to take private property and transfer it to other private owners to promote “economic development” generated a…