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Fla. Eminent Domain Plan Could Be Largest

When Mayor Michael Brown envisions the future of this struggling city, he sees no poverty, no drug dealing, no prostitution — and none of the 1,700 buildings where many of his poorest constituents live and work.

Colo. Lawmakers Kill Eminent Domain Plan

Colorado lawmakers killed a plan Monday that would have let state voters decide whether to limit the government's power to seize private property.

N.H. Lawmakers OK Eminent Domain Limits

New Hampshire lawmakers gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a constitutional amendment that would limit government's ability to seize private property.

Tenant, 93, Wins Ga. Eminent Domain Case

A jury decided that a Georgia hospital is going to have to pay nearly five times what it offered if it wants to condemn a rental house where a frail, 93-year-old woman has lived for nearly three decades.

Pa. Court Rules City Can't Seize Home

A city agency violated the separation of church and state when it seized a woman's home to help a religious group build a private school in a blighted Philadelphia neighborhood, a state appeals court ruled Monday.

40 States Re-Examining Eminent Domain

The city wants Anna DeFaria's home, and if she doesn't sell willingly, officials are going to take it from the 80-year-old retired pre-school teacher.

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Dozens Arrested at L.A. Community Garden

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.

Government Votes to Take Private Homes and give to Private Developer

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.

Eminent Domain is Never the Solution

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.

City to consider taking land from Wal-Mart

Source: sfgate.com

(From the San Francisco Chronicle)

The Ironic Death and Life of a Strip Club

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.

Angry Activists Lose Fight to Evict Justice Souter

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.

Souter's Town Holds Symbolic Vote on Home

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.

Souter won’t get taste of his own medicine

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.

Eminent Domain With a Twist: Village Wants To Condemn Exclusive Golf Club

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.

Affluent Village Seaks to Take Over a Private Golf Club

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.

The Myth of Modern Communism (a rebuttal)

Since the 1917 revolution, the spectre of "International Communism" has haunted American Politics like the phantom blood and daggers in Lady Macbeth's mind.

Democrats Support the Communist Manifesto!?

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.

States Curbing Right to Seize Private Homes

Source: The New York Times

On eminent domain, the backlash to the recent scotus decision, and the backlash to the backlash.

States Curbing Right to Seize Private Homes - NYT

Source: nytimes.com

As they say: politics makes strange bed fellows.

Court Upholds Eminent Domain for D.C. Baseball

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.

BB&T; opposes eminent domain

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.

Bank Stands Up for Individual Rights Over Profit

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.

BB&T; Respects Property Rights, Won’t Fund Eminent Domain Abuse

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

"Eminent domain" chicken comes home to roost

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

ABC News: Group Seeks Souter Eviction As Protest

Source: abcnews.go.com

Great idea, hope they follow-thru.

Battle over ruling comes knocking at justice's door

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.

Land grab in Camden: "Urban renewal" is back!

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.

Michelle Malkin: HOME FRONT: EMINENT DOMAIN IN OHIO

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.

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