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November 16, 2005
Upper West Side Story
Forbes.com, On My Mind (opinion)
According to William M. Treanor, the dean of Fordham Law School, who "has spent much of his academic career writing on the history of the Fifth Amendment's takings clause":
[The Property Rights Protection Act,] H.R. 4128, however, is a blunderbuss rule that would effectively take away from local governments the power to use an invaluable urban planning tool. Had H.R. 4128 been law in 1955, the grim and violent Upper West Side of West Side Story might still be a reality.
Posted by lumi at November 16, 2005 9:22 PM