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The Cato Institute's property rights event from last week is now available for viewing online. Check out particularly Richard Mersereau's comments on the Prop. 90 campaign in California. … ...

The Institute for Justice is asking people to call Congress this week, while there's still time for eminent domain reform. … ...

New Jersey is the epicenter of some of the biggest eminent domain cases going on today. Last week, property owners in Westville filed a lawsuit to defend their business against the city's redevelopment plans. … ...

Millville, New Jersey, has approved a resolution declaring that they will not condemn "owner-occupied, single-family residential dwelling units" for private development. Well, that's a start, anyway. But remember, it's small businesses, not residences, that are most threatened by the abuse of eminent domain. … ...

by Timothy Sandefur South Lake Tahoe, Nevada (not far from where I live) is going forward with the condemnation of several businesses on Highway 50, to give the land to a developer who will "run a sales office out of the 1,600-square-foot building to start selling its 176 condominium units for about $450,000." … ...

by Timothy Sandefur The New Jersey Supreme Court has upheld the government's authority to condemn land to preserve "open space." This is an important decision, since New Jersey is the battleground of some of the most important eminent domain cases going on today. Two observations: First, it's ironic that eminent domain is now bein ...

by Timothy Sandefur Prof. Ilya Somin has some comments on Didden v. Port Chester, a particularly egregious case that the Supreme Court has been asked to take. My own brief in the case, on behalf of Pacific Legal Foundation, was filed today, and I'll post it and more comments on the case on Monday. … ...

by Timothy Sandefur In Didden v. Port Chester, the government decided to redevelop an area of the city, and chose a developer who drew up development plans. One of the property owners, Bart Didden, owned a piece of property that he wanted to lease to CVS to build a pharmacy. The developer, on the other … ...

by Timothy Sandefur There's a procedure in eminent domain cases called "quick take," by which the government seizes property immediately, and lets the legal issues be settled later. The idea is that eminent domain cases sometimes take so long to resolve that government can't wait; some projects are too urgent. So the government ca ...