The Columbia Tribune's Politics Blog has an interview with Ron Calzone of Missouri Citizens for Property Rights about the Tourkakis case. … ...
PLF client Homer Tourkakis has this article in St. Louis Today this morning, explaining why the only hope for protecting property rights in Missouri is to amend the state Constitution. Excerpt: My wife, Julie, and I opened our dental practice in 1985. We raised two beautiful daughters and sent them to Missouri colleges. We've tried … ...
by Timothy Sandefur Columnist Paul Jacob has this excellent editorial on the Tourkakis case. Excerpt: In this case, Arnold v. Tourkakis, the judges one-upped the infamous Kelo decision, ignored the state constitution, and overruled the lower court's good sense. All to give Arnold the power to abuse eminent domain. This may not sound like much, ...
by Timothy Sandefur Here's an unusually good story on the Missouri Supreme Court's Tourkakis decision. Excerpt: With the ruling, Tourkakis said his belief in an individual's right to own property might be a myth. And, while he admits the whole experience has been unpleasant and exhausting, he has no misgivings about what he and his ...
Here is the Pacific Legal Foundation's press release regarding the Missouri Supreme Court's decision yesterday. … ...
by Timothy Sandefur The Missouri Supreme Court yesterday issued a short opinion allowing the third class city of Arnold, Missouri to use eminent domain to condemn land owned by PLF client Homer Tourkakis and transfer it to a private developer to construct a multimillion dollar shopping center. As you can see by comparing the opinion … ...
by Timothy Sandefur I will also be speaking at the Americans for Prosperity Summit in Topeka, Kansas on Wednesday, March 19. More info here. … ...
by Timothy Sandefur I will be speaking at the MORR conference on Redevelopment Abuse in Anaheim on Saturday. That's the Municipal Officials for Redevelopment Reform. Also on the bill are Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle, Orange County Supervisor Chris Norby, Orange County Register columnist Steven Greenhut, and Dr. Mindy Fullilov, author of Root Shoc ...
by Timothy Sandefur Professor Ilya Somin has recently been blogging about the new book The Rise of The Conservative Legal Movement by Steve Teles. In this post he mentions what he considers "a very important shortcoming" of groups like the Pacific Legal Foundation: namely, the failure to litigate "follow-up" cases to enforce maj ...