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Property Rights Measure Stays on Arizona Ballot

August 31, 2006 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Arizona voters will get to say yay or nay to Proposition 207, which "would prohibit use of eminent domain for economic development and require government compensation for owners of property if its value is reduced by land-use laws." … ...

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One for the good guys

August 31, 2006 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Short article, nice outcome re: just compensation, an issue that's sometimes overshadowed by whether property should be taken in the first place. … ...

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Venezuela Takes Golf Courses For Housing

August 30, 2006 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

In America governments take property by claiming it's "blighted."  In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez takes property if it's not blighted enough. … ...

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Trickle-Down Jurisprudence

August 30, 2006 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

by Steven Geoffrey Gieseler Now eminent domain is the topic for high school debates in Florida.  Unthinkable, as far as I know, pre-Kelo.  I myself was a high school debater in Florida less than a decade ago, and eminent domain didn't exactly dominate discussion.  (I once spent a session arguing that Sam Cooke was "better ...

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New Jersey Property Owners Get Help

August 30, 2006 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Our friends at the Institute for Justice have filed an appeal on behalf of Long Branch property owners in danger of having their houses seized for "beachfront redevelopment." … ...

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New Hampshire Joins The Club

August 30, 2006 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

The Granite State becomes the latest to have its voters decide in November, to some extent, the eminent domain issue. … ...

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Sen. Allen Reacts to Criticism of Land Use Bill

August 30, 2006 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

By Steven Geoffrey Gieseler Earlier this month we wrote of a regrettable proposal, sponsored by Virginia senator George Allen, that would significantly limit property rights in a corridor stretching from Pennsylvania to Virginia. Sen. Allen has responded to widespread criticism of this measure, and the National Center for Public Policy Research say ...

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Riviera Beach Retaliation Update

August 29, 2006 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

by Steven Geoffrey Gieseler Here's an update on Fane Lozman, the Riviera Beach (Fla.) man threatened with eviction by pathetic city officials for challenging the city's illegal redevelopment plan. Money quote:  "I'm not going anywhere." Good for him. … ...

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Spitzer Contoversy Involves Eminent Domain

August 29, 2006 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer–almost certain to be the state's next governor, and rumored to have barely disguised higher aspirations–is involved in a campaign donation controversy centering on an eminent domain proposal.  In short, he accepted $50,000 from a company seeking state approval for a plan that would take ...