Grand Jury's Eminent Domain Stance Lauded
The Redding (CA) Record-Searchlight reports that the Shasta County grand jury has recommended against the use of eminent domain to build a private development near city hall. … ...
Village Settles Suit on Eminent Domain
The Chicago Tribune reports that the Village Board has agreed to pay $1.9 million for a furniture store that it condemned to make way for a private development. … ...
Council Votes to Exercise Eminent Domain
The City of Topeka, Kansas has decided to condemn a liquor store for private development. … ...
Prop. 2: Idaho's Boston Tea Party
Tracy Lotz describes Idaho's eminent domain ballot initiative as that state's Boston Tea Party. (Although that makes me picture throwing a bunch of potatoes off a boat!) … ...
North Providence Bans Eminent-Domain Land Takings
The Providence (R.I.) Business News reports that the Town Council of North Providence has approved an ordinance which prohibits the city from taking land to give "a private benefit or use" to "a particular private entity." … ...
Eminent Domain Looms Over Arena Site
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports on the city's plans to condemn a small business to give the land to the city's Sports and Exhibition Authority to construct an arena. … ...
A New Tale of Cities: How Congress Wants to Fix Eminent Domain–And Why it Should
The San Francisco Chronicle has an article by Prof. Moshe Adler arguing in favor of Congressional legislation which would deny federal funding to cities that abuse eminent domain. Sensenbrenner's legislation is the most sensible eminent-domain proposal since the Berman vs. Parker 1954 decision that permitted private-to-private transfer of prope ...
Eminent Domain Takes a Hit in Town of North Hempstead
by Timothy Sandefur The Hempstead (N.Y.) Northender has a brief report on the passage of S 7358-A, a bill which it says would prohibit cities from using eminent domain to seize private recreational facilities and transfer them to public ownership. The bill is aimed at protecting a private golf club that the government wants to … ...
Eminent Domain: 'It's David against Goliath'
by Timothy Sandefur The Pryor (MO) Daily Times describes the passage of Missouri's new, meaningless eminent domain "reform," which, like too many other recent laws, does virtually nothing to protect property owners. Here's more from Missourinet. "Representative Steve Hobbs (R-Mexico), the bill sponsor, says it took cooperatio ...
Eminent Domain Bill Left in Limbo
The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer reports that North Carolina's eminent domain reform bill "could be hung up over an amendment that would place a limit on existing rules that control condemnation for urban redevelopment." … ...