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by Timothy Sandefur On Friday, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed this brief in support of the Western Shellfish Corporation, a family business in Freeport, Texas, that has been targeted for eminent domain by city officials who want to replace it with a recreational marina. The Western Shellfish case is the subject of the new book … ...

by Timothy Sandefur The Colorado Supreme Court today issued this ruling in a case called Wheat Ridge v. Cornerstone Group, in which the Pacific Legal Foundation filed this brief. This was a particularly interesting case because the city had decided not to go through with condemning certain land and giving it to a developer. The … ...

by Timothy Sandefur Thanks to the Institute for Justice, the Missouri Ombudsman for Eminent Domain, and the National Federation of Independent Business for their "friend of the court" briefs filed in support of property owners Homer and Julie Tourkakis. The Show-Me Institute also filed a brief, which you can read here. The Pacific Legal F ...

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 ...

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 … ...

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 ...

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

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

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 … ...