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You don't often see something funny involving eminent domain… … ...

by Timothy Sandefur Larry Gilbert has this report on a recent League of California Cities event held to discuss eminent domain reform in California. Unfortunately, it looks like the League is still trying to deceive voters about what their proposal would accomplish. … ...

Reason TV's Drew Carey has this report on eminent domain abuse in National City, California. … ...

The Wall Street Journal has an important, in-depth look at the "exactions" that are increasing housing costs and standing in the way of the American Dream. It focuses on many of the cases that the Pacific Legal Foundation has litigated, including the case of the Banzons, who were told by city bureaucrats that they had … ...

It looks like the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer’s Association has enough signatures to put their eminent domain reform initiative on the ballot in California in 2008. … ...

The Orange County Register has this editorial on the ballot initiative in California to try to restrict eminent domain abuse. Supporters of a more traditional, constitutional view of private property are back again with the California Property Owners and Farmland Protection Act. Its backers earlier this month turned in more than 1 million signature ...

by Timothy Sandefur Today the Pacific Legal Foundation filed this brief on behalf of Homer and Julie Tourkakis, property owners and victims of eminent domain abuse in the city of Arnold, Missouri. Homer Tourkakis's dental practice is being targeted because the City wants to construct the Arnold Commons, a large retail shopping center that will ...

by Timothy Sandefur Here is the Show Me Institute's amicus curiae brief in City of Arnold v. Tourkakis, the eminent domain case before the Missouri Supreme Court that I blogged about here. The brief points out the shocking extent of eminent domain abuse in Missouri. … ...

by Timothy Sandefur Carla Main, author of the excellent new book Bulldozed: "Kelo," Eminent Domain, And The American Lust for Land, has started up a website about her book. Also, the San Francisco Daily Journal will be running my review of it next week. … ...