To: ken21
Don't want to get labeled as a troll or worse -- but didn't they use the same rulings in the 1800s with the railroads?
37 posted on
06/24/2005 4:07:14 PM PDT by
durasell
(Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
To: durasell
...oh yes, and Robert Moses used similar laws in NYC.
40 posted on
06/24/2005 4:11:44 PM PDT by
durasell
(Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
To: durasell
that's a good question.
i don't know about that specifically.
however, i have read of 20th property takings by corporations under questionable circumstances. i'm thinking specifically of a book by kai byrd "chairman mccloy". mccloy was a lawyer for an expensive law firm, and he was involved with taking the pensions of railroad workers.
it's a fascinating book. mccloy was in a lot of presidential administrations, a cfr guy, etc.
41 posted on
06/24/2005 4:13:16 PM PDT by
ken21
(the u.s. supreme court just elected a republican president in 2008!)
To: durasell
Naa I don't think you are a troll. You are kinda right about the railroads after the unCivil War. However the railroads were a public project for the common good and were for the most part constitutional. Were there abuses? Lord yes, the Jesse James legend comes to mind. but for the most part it was legal and constitutional.
46 posted on
06/24/2005 4:22:25 PM PDT by
Bar-Face
(Impeach John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer)
To: durasell
The railroad issue is specifically mentioned in this ruling but the SC notes that was more clearly a public use / project than this redevelopment wet dream is.
81 posted on
06/24/2005 8:16:46 PM PDT by
jiggyboy
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