[Hoodat]

No, I think you are looking at it wrong. It was Vera Coking's property. Not yours. Not Trump's. Not Atlantic City's. It was Vera Coking's. And Vera Coking is the one who gets to decide how much Vera Coking is willing to sell for, regardless of how quickly Atlantic City was dying. So you can take your Big Brother looter fascism back where it came from. I believe in liberty, property rights, and the Constitution of the United States of America. And it is clear that you do not.

[jstaff]

Very well said. Shame so many on FR seem to have forgotten all that.

[JayGalt]

I don’t think you read my comments. I’m fine with Mrs Coking not selling. I’m fine with the judgement in her favor. I’m not fine with painting the town as villains for deciding that they needed to attract tourism to Atlantic City. That’s why courts exist to balance disparate interests.

We as a country have given towns the right to decide on zoning, redistricting, eminent domain and a host of other things. If we want to abridge those rights or parse them differently then we can legally. There is no reason to push the meme of villains here. The legal system exists as a break and functioned that way.