Begging for Billionaires: The Attack on Property Rights in America A Documentary Film About Eminent Domain
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Taking Stock of Redevelopment Wrecks
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| Atlantic Yards Report: Eminent domain case set for oral argument ... By Norman Oder Well, a day after I wrote that no hearing had been scheduled in the Atlantic Yards state eminent domain case, the case was scheduled for Monday, February 23, in a court calendar that begins at 10 a.m. ... <http://atlanticyardsreport. Atlantic Yards Report <http://atlanticyardsreport. Council: School, recreation are city's top capital plan priorities SOUNDBOUNDER: Steel Point Oyster Fleet
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The former home of the Dery Family, plaintiffs in the Kelo v New London case, is now being used as a training ground by the New London Fire Department. I guess the city doesn't know what else to do with it while they're waiting for the Municipal Development Plan to come to fruition. I don't know why residents are so upset. Michael Joplin, President of the New London Development, recently reminded us that the MDP was always meant to be a 30 year plan. The thing I'm not sure of is if we should start counting from 1998 when the plan first came to light or 2005 when the Supreme Court ruled that "economic development" met the guidelines of public use set down in the Constitution. I simply don't know.
| From Division of Labour I recently had the good fortune of attending a conference on Machiavelli's The Prince, which mixes artful ambiguity with positive political economy in beguiling yet somehow satisfying ways. Machiavelli's continued relevance is impressive. For example, there's been much ado lately about Kelo-style development takings. GMU law professor Ilya Somin has a chapter in my forthcoming book, Law without Romance, in which he argues that the Kelo rationale can justify any taking that benefits a commercial enterprise. This echoes Justice O'Connor's famous "any Motel 6 can be taken for a Ritz-Carlton" dissent. Machiavelli's take on it comes from Chapter 17 of The Prince, and includes an eery warning against what we know as Kelo's political backlash: | "The Prince should nonetheless make himself feared in such a mode that if he does not acquire love, he escapes hatred, because being feared and not being hated can go together very well. This he will always do if he abstains from the property of his citizens and his subjects, and from their women; and if he also needs to proceed against someone's life [blood], he must do it when there is suitable justification and manifest cause for it. But above all, he must abstain from the property of others, because men forget the death of a father more quickly than the loss of a patrimony. Furthermore, causes for taking away property are never lacking, and he who begins to live by rapine always finds cause to seize others' property; and, on the contrary, causes for taking life are rarer and disappear more quickly." |
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In the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s now-infamous decision in Kelo v. City of New London, 41 states have passed new laws aimed at curbing the abuse of eminent domain for private use...click here
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