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December 9, 2004
Supreme Court Asked To Take A Closer Look At Eminent Domain
The New London Day: The New London's local daily's coverage of the Supreme Court case filed by local residents. The brief for the petitioners, homeowners in the Fort Trumbull area, was filed last week.
Its brief contends that a man's ownership of his home or business is tenuous if the government, eager for more taxes, can seize his property and hand it to a developer who offers the promise of economic growth that will trickle down to the city as a whole.
To shore up private-property rights, the institute asks the court to shrink the broad interpretation of the Constitution's public use clause to allow eminent domain only for such traditional uses as the laying of utilities and the clearing of blight. If the court is not willing to go that far, the attorneys have asked that governments be allowed to use eminent domain for business growth only if they can present clear evidence that a project likely will produce the promised fruits of jobs and taxes.
Posted by lumi at December 9, 2004 8:24 AM