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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 ...

The Castle Coalition has released a new report on the abuse of eminent domain in California. Very much worth reading. Some highlights: • California has 395 active redevelopment agencies• about 80 percent of municipalities have a redevelopment agency• 759 blight zones• $12.9 billion worth of property owned by redevelopment agencies in fiscal ...

I will be speaking to the St. Louis Federalist Society on Thursday about eminent domain. Also on the panel with me are the Show Me Institute's Dave Roland, as well as attorneys Gerald Carmody and Alan Bornstein. The discussion will probably center around the City of Arnold v. Tourkakis case I argued before the Missouri … ...

by Timothy Sandefur The Sacramento Bee's Dan Walters explains how California's legislators are already trying to repeal what few eminent domain reforms were passed recently, and make it easier for the government to take away your home or business and give it to wealthy private developers. Legislative language being circulated in the Capitol ...

While the question of public use gets most of the ink, there's another showing that governments must make before they take private property.  State actors seeking to use their eminent domain power must prove that the target property is "necessary" to effect the stated public use.  Otherwise, of course, the government could ...

The Entrepreneurial Mind points to an excellent eminent domain success in New Jersey. Congratulations to our friends at the National Federation of Independent Business Legal Foundation. … ...

Prof. Richard Epstein will speak at the Cato Institute on March 6th at 12 Eastern, about his new book Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property. You can watch the even live online here. … ...

by Timothy Sandefur The California eminent domain reform initiative, which would give strong protections to California's home and business owners against the violation of their property rights, has been given a number and is now Proposition 98. You can read more about it at this site. A group of government bureaucrats, however, who oppose emine ...