It was just after the 2005 Supreme Court Decision was announced that I first wrote about the hideously wrong ruling in Kelo v. New London. (Yes, that’s a Wikipedia article. It’s just for general info, not a legal analysis.) I have written about it since, of course, and you can see what I’ve said, specifically, [...]
As anyone who’s read this blog for a while knows, I’m not a big fan of eminent domain. The fact of the matter is that it’s a necessary process, at times, but it should be the absolutely, positively last resort taken. And it should only be considered in the case of a true public good [...]
In July 2005 the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Kelo v. New London, essentially saying that a local government could execute an eminent domain taking against a private property holder for the purposes of giving that property over to a 3rd private party so that a development could be done that might generate [...]
