Posted on 10/04/2004 1:01:32 PM PDT by watchout
Confiscating homes What would you call it if someone forced you to sell your home, even though you didn't want to sell and didn't agree to the price? You would call it theft and phone 911. But the realm of government is cloaked in terminology designed to hide unpleasant realities. When the government does this, it's called "eminent domain," and it's legal. Wilhelmina Dery has lived her entire life in the house where she was born in 1918, in a modest section of New London, Conn. But if she hopes to depart this world from the same place she entered it, she will need help from the U.S. Supreme Court. This week, it agreed to decide whether Mrs. Dery and others can be deprived of their homes merely because the city thinks the property could be put to a more lucrative use. Municipal authorities want to demolish her house, and others, to make room for a commercial development next to the new Pfizer Corp. research headquarters.
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there will likely be some eminent domain apologists along soon to decry these selfish people who refuse to move so the .gov can turn around and sell the property to another private party.
she needs to appeal this. Specially if there is no viable "public use" for the property.
What a bunch of crooks.
Well, the govt. owns your home anyway. Try not paying your property taxes and see how long it takes for men with guns to come and throw you out.
Absolutely. Everybody has their price, and whoever wants this land should pay it rather than running to the government.
I'm sure they'll argue that the "public use" is for the increased tax revenue of the property, and not the property use itself.
The danger is when they start slipping further into Soviet tactics of taking the property of someone who fell into disfavor and giving it to the next politburo member as a rewar, citing "public use" of increased tax revenues derived from re-appriaising the property on title transfer.
-PJ
Um...here case is before the U.S. Supreme Court. Who else is there?
I live on 7.5 acres near an exit to a highway that will be completed this year, and have been very interested in "eminant domain" issues for the last several years. I have a good attorney that is skilled in these matters, if the occasion ever arises. If diplomacy doesn't work I may have to exercise a "military" option.
YeeeeeeeHaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
an appeal of the offer can be made based on the value of the future intended use of the property. I see people do this successfully all of the time. They may still lose their land, but they often get as much as 20 times the original offer.
She did. Today SCOTUS agreed to hear it.
I hope the Supreme Court spanks the sh!t out of the New London goverment.
It's happening in an affluent area of Cincinnati and I think it started off transforming crack houses that were butting up against a good area and now that they got those places they are trying to take some fairly nice places to build another "office complex" .. it should come to a head in this town soon...
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Neal Boortz has been calling attebtion to this problem for many months. Homes are being taken all across the country through the abuse of eminent domain. The city councils see dollar signs when companies want the land...more tax revenue means more money to line their pockets. This should be a HUGE story and people should be outraged.
That is exactly what they are doing. Problem is - whose land wouldn't be worth more in tax revenue if it were turned into a business (or high-density housing)? If that logic stands, nobody will be safe from this kind of stuff.
Amazing these clowns would try this again. Donald Trump tried to used this to seize a house for a casino and was defeated in court. Who knows what the court of Sondra's whim Supreme will decide.
It's what Burt Gummer has spent his life fearing, Graboids and Eminent Domain
eminent domain was created originally to allow railroads right of way in crossing the country. without it the east never would have met the west and they would still be building it.
now, they are using it to foce people to move for local commercial reasons...
slippery slope
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