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David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register says that "The recent flap over eminent domain in Iowa illustrates how we need to organize a property-rights movement in this state." … ...

Fayetteville Online recommends that the people of North Carolina contact their representatives to urge them not to let the opportunity for eminent domain reform slip by. … ...

Thanks very much to The National Journal's Beltway Blogroll for mentioning PLF on Eminent Domain—and also for mentioning Alan Krigman's excellent Eminent Domain Watch. … ...

Here is PLF's press release announcing the publication of my new book, Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America. The book covers eminent domain, regulatory takings, and other property rights issues, and it can be purchased from the Cato Institute's website. (It'll be available from Amazon and other bookstores in t ...

by Steven Geoffrey Gieseler This weekend I read an advance copy of my colleague Tim Sandefur's book, Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America. I'm proud to concur with Senator John Cornyn and Prof. Richard Epstein (among others) in recommending it, with much enthusiasm and no reservation. Tim has written a book that ...

Here's a new blog monitoring developments in Pennsylvania eminent domain law. … ...

by Timothy Sandefur Seth Fox of the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report has this article about the Louisiana ballot initiative which would amend the state constitution to restrict the use of eminent domain. Check out real estate attorney Charles Landry's comment that "Without government being extremely active in economic development, that ...

by Timothy Sandefur Adrian More of the Reason Foundation argues that Local officials’ grand redevelopment schemes emanate from a vision in which community needs trump individual ones—on everything from public safety to how a privately-owned building should be used. …It may seem reasonable to allow eminent domain to deal with "bli ...

by Steven Geoffrey Gieseler Riviera Beach Mayor Michael Brown–a named defendant in PLF's suit to force Riviera Beach to comply with Florida's new eminent domain law–has an affinity for playing the victim.  His pronouncements defending his patently illegal redevelopment scheme invariably claim that those of us who stubbornl ...

by Timothy Sandefur Peter Schrag has a column in the Sacramento Bee complaining that Prop. 90, the Protect Our Homes Initiative, has a "booby trap": namely, that it would require government to compensate property owners when it enacts laws that forbid a person from using his or her property as they wish. It's strange that … ...