EMINENT DOMAIN 2: THE QUICKENING

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The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses -- even against their will -- for private economic development.

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Susette Kelo and several other homeowners in a working-class neighborhood in New London, Connecticut, filed suit after city officials announced plans to raze their homes for a riverfront hotel, health club and offices.

It's finally happened: i'm on the same side of a decision as Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas.  Time to join a golf course and buy a luxury car.

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[twillis.livejournal.com]

OH GOD I CAN'T WAKE UP SOMEBODY WAKE ME UP



You know, if I spend the next twenty years building up and developing my farm, I'm going to be pretty annoyed if THE MAN tries to steal it to expand the race track or something equally stupid.

Never heard of them doing rural renewal...

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

...even when those houses are so much below the grade of the city homes that get whacked it's not funny. Rural blight is merely picturesque -- and the worst of them are tenant houses on proper people's land.