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K Street Battle Headed to Court

December 19, 2007 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Yesterday, the Sacramento City Council voted unanimously to steal the property of local businessman and philanthropist Mo Mohanna through eminent domain and give it to developer Joe Zeiden. The Sacramento Bee (which supports this move) has the details here. … ...

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Eminent Domain Abuse in Sacramento

December 18, 2007 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Sacramento property owner Moe Mohanna has a website here about the pending condemnation of his property on K Street in downtown Sacramento. It includes a video. Mohanna is asking people to show up today at 2p.m. at the City Council meeting to speak out against the abuse of eminent domain. … ...

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Wall Street Journal Covers PLF's Property Rights Cases

December 14, 2007 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Thursday's Wall Street Journal carried this story on some of PLF's property rights cases, and particularly on our lawsuit against Surfide Beach, Texas, which is trying to take away the property of 14 homeowners. In an earlier article, the Journal covered PLF's "exactions" cases. … ...

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What's Happened Since Kelo?

December 13, 2007 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

by Timothy Sandefur The answer, as Prof. Ilya Somin points out, is practically nothing: two and one half years after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the city and some seven years after the condemnation proceedings were first initiated, little or no economic development has occurred on the condemned land. As the New London … ...

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State Supreme Court to Hear Arnold Eminent Domain Case

December 12, 2007 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

The Suburban Journals have this article the Tourkakis eminent domain case, which is scheduled for oral argument on January 17. … ...

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My Bulldozed Review

December 11, 2007 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

by Timothy Sandefur Here is the full text of my review of Bulldozed from the Daily Recorder. … ...

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My Review of Bulldozed

December 08, 2007 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

by Timothy Sandefur My review of Carla Main's book Bulldozed appears in the San Francisco Daily Journal—I think for Monday, although I was told it would appear on Friday. (Online and hardcopy might have different publication dates.) Anyway, subscription is required to read it, but here's an excerpt: Lawyers and economists can examine Kelo ...

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Missouri Ombudsman for Eminent Domain

December 05, 2007 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

by Timothy Sandefur In a previous post I mentioned Anthony Martin, the Missouri Ombudsman for Eminent Domain, who has filed a friend of the court brief in support of PLF clients Homer and Julie Tourkakis in the Missouri Supreme Court. Here is the Ombudsman's website. He has posted some disturbing pictures of what qualifies as … ...

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Inverse Condemnation Blog on The Colorado Eminent Domain Case

December 05, 2007 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

by Timothy Sandefur The Inverse Condemnation Blog has an in-depth look at the Wheat Ridge case that I mentioned here. "Whoa, eminent domain is a tool to 'redistribute' private property 'in any manner that future circumstances and the public welfare demand?' I thought eminent domain was supposed to be used to take property when ...