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This recent poll shows California's Prop 90 "well ahead, favored by 58% and opposed by 28%." UPDATE:  This article from CNNMoney.com cites a poll finding a similar level of support, and quotes an opponent of the measure who concedes defeating it is an "uphill fight." … ...

Owners of property on our side of the Rio Grande River fear that the recently-authorized border fence will be built on land taken from them via eminent domain. … ...

The government-retained lawyer quoted in this article makes eminent domain seem like a kind of fun adventure: Eminent domain isn't a land grab, Gutman said.  The government has to identify a pubilc purpose for the land it wants and offer a fair-market price . . . 'And the property owner gets to hire an attorney … ...

The Cato Institute's Roger Pilon had this article in the L.A. Times on Monday. Excerpt: Whole neighborhoods have been bulldozed to make way for "upscale" private developments. Not surprisingly, the poor and politically unconnected have suffered most. Another abuse is closely related and arguably worse. Rather than condemn the whole pr ...

Chapman University Law School has now put the video of PLF's Eminent Domain Symposium online. (Thanks to Catherine Parsons and the rest of the Chapman Federalist Society.) … ...

by Timothy Sandefur California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced his opposition to Proposition 90. He says he's concerned that the provisions relating to measuring just compensation might make road construction more expensive. … ...

Joy Gamble, one of the Ohio homeowners whose fight against eminent domain abuse resulted in a marvelous victory in the Ohio Supreme Court, has an article on her four year struggle against the state. … ...

The Mayor of El Paso, Texas, says he wants to remove eminent domain from the city's redevelopment plan, after  local citizens led outraged protests against the seizure oftheir land. … ...

by Timothy Sandefur Proposition 90 is controversial because, in addition to its eminent domain reform, it also would require government to compensate people when it takes away their property rights through a regulation. It's hard to put that in a soundbyte. But the one way not to do it is to lie outright about the … ...