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Yesterday, Chief Judge Roll of the District of Arizona overturned the Service's decision not to designate critical habitat for the jaguar.  The case is a bit anachronistic in its focus on whether the decision not to designate was properly supported by the Service's conclusion that designation would be "imprudent."  The ...

Texans rallied in front of the state capitol building in Austin yesterday to demand meaningful eminent domain reform–not the false reform that's watered down with exceptions for "blighted" property. … ...

Here's a very telling timeline on the Atlantic Yards project in New York. … ...

by Timothy Sandefur Maggie Neff of the Jackson (Miss.) Free Press has an excellent comment on the decision by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to veto that state's eminent domain reform bill. She concludes, Corporations need to make up their minds, as do the conservatives who so strongly oppose government regulation. The idea of free enterpri ...

by Timothy Sandefur I'll be on Ed Brayton's radio show Declaring Independence today, to discuss eminent domain and other constitutional issues. … ...

Our friends at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association are sponsoring a tea party rally here in Sacramento April 15. sponspored by our friends at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. If you're in the area, come on by. If not, attend one in your state! … ...

The Montana legislature is considering a bill, SB402, which would require the government to compensate property owners when legislation makes their property valueless–in addition to when it actually seizes the property outright through eminent domain. … ...

by Timothy Sandefur It's happened before: government using eminent domain to keep sports franchises from leaving town. Decades ago the city of Oakland, California, condemned the Oakland Raiders so that they wouldn't leave town. (As a friend of mine said recently, "The Raiders? Talk about blight!") The California Supreme Court allo ...

The California Legislature is considering bills that would expand the California Coastal Commission's powers and have serious impacts on coastal property owners: AB 226:  This bill authorizes the Commission itself (not just the courts) to impose monetary penalties on property owners who allegedly violate the Coastal Act.  Moreover, ...