CA: You Can’t Get From 37 To 90 (Prop 90 and comparisons to Oregon's Prop 37)

CaliforniaRepublic.org ^ | 11/2/06 | Gary M. Galles

[Rockitz]

Two words- "jury trial"

[Axenolith]

So what? That's as good a way as any to determine fair compensation if you couldn't get to it via comps.

The big load of hate for emminent domain often stems from the fact that the "fair market value" craters the minute the E word is spoken. If you have a plot the government wants to steal and every other one around is going for 500K, it's not like you're going to get 900K for it, no less go to trial.

Now if the fear is merely because any given jury, should it reach that point, is going to yearn to screw a given government well then, if that particular government has engendered that much animosity in property owners then maybe they aren't doing something right.