Source: usatoday.com
Actress Daryl Hannah was among dozens of protesters arrested Tuesday when police moved in on a 14-acre community garden where farmers and their supporters have been resisting eviction.
Nearly a year ago in the case of Kelo vs. City of New London the Supreme Court ruled that the government could take land from a private citizen and give it to another private developer.
Source: capmag.com
Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard wants the government to use its power of eminent domain to take property from one set of owners in SE Portland and transfer it to some others, in the hope that they will build an upscale supermarket.
Source: sfgate.com
(From the San Francisco Chronicle)
Source: Boston's Weekly Dig
When Boston government honchos decided to kick a strip joint from its 20-year-old digs, they inadvertently forced the city to both pay the club for its land and relocate the business within the very same district—across the street.
Source: foxnews.com
Residents on Saturday overturned a proposal to evict U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter from his farmhouse and build an inn, instead substituting a call for the Legislature to strengthen state law on eminent domain.
Source: foxnews.com
The vote was prompted by activists angered by the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision last year in a property rights case from Connecticut. Souter sided with the majority in holding that governments can take property and turn it over to private developers.
Source: msnbc.msn.com
In a largely symbolic gesture, voters in Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s hometown on Tuesday rejected a proposal to seize his 200-year-old farmhouse as payback for a ruling that expanded government’s authority to take property.
Source: WSJ Law Blog
One of the nation’s most exclusive golf clubs is locked in an eminent domain battle with the wealthy enclave in which it’s located.
Source: newsday.com
Source: wnbc.com
The village of North Hills, where houses start at a Million dollars, seeks to use the recent Kelo vs. New London Supreme Court ruling acquire the private Deepdale Golf Club a favorite of Matt Lauer and the late Bob Hope.
Since the 1917 revolution, the spectre of "International Communism" has haunted American Politics like the phantom blood and daggers in Lady Macbeth's mind.
After hearing something about how the Left wing agenda is dangerously close to the teachings of Karl Marx and his Communist Manifesto, I decided to do some research. I was a bit surprised at some of the findings.
Source: The New York Times
On eminent domain, the backlash to the recent scotus decision, and the backlash to the backlash.
Source: nytimes.com
As they say: politics makes strange bed fellows.
Source: WTOP/103.5
The D.C. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the city's attempt to acquire land via eminent domain for a new baseball stadium. The Siegel Group attempted unsuccessfully to gain an injunction against the effort.
Source: washtimes.com
"BB&T; will not lend money to developers who plan to build commercial projects on land taken from private citizens through the power of eminent domain." Thank god someone is finally standing up to the business-running-Congress crap.
Source: townhall.com
In another great column by Prof. Walter E. Williams, he highlights Branch Banking and Trust Company and their stand against the use of eminent domain in transferring property from one American to another.
Arlington, Va.—BB&T;, the nation’s ninth largest financial holdings company with $109.2 billion in assets, announced today that it “will not lend to commercial developers that plan to build condominiums, shopping malls and other private projects on land taken from private cit
Source: bizjournals.com
I hope all of the major lenders follow suit.
As my wife just said in response to this interesting development: " I love America." Heh heh heh. Indeed. Everyone go exercise their right to go take someone's land and build a friggin' Dairy Queen. Time to go stock up on shotguns and generators. - ERJ
Source: abcnews.go.com
Great idea, hope they follow-thru.
Source: chicagotribune.com
Angered by a Supreme Court ruling last year that gave local governments more power to seize people's homes for economic development, activists are trying to get one of the court's justices evicted from his own home.
Source: philly.com
Remember the 1960s project to save our cities by destroying them--what many black activists derided as "Negro removal"? Well, it's returned, in a new, improved, multicultural version. All a neighborhood needs to be to be declared "blighted" is poor.
Source: michellemalkin.com
Using its power of eminent domain, the city wants to take a neighborhood that it considers to be deteriorating and boost its fortunes by allowing a $125 million development of offices and shops.