From the article:
In essence, wrote Mr. Epstein and George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin, the taking of private property amounted to “out-and-out extortion” with government support. Yet Judge Sotomayor’s panel not only ruled against Mr. Didden’s property rights, but did so with a bare, six-paragraph order - as Mr. Somin described it, “without serious examination of the legal issues to any significant degree.”
She allowed some a-hole developer to take property that was a CVS pharmacy and instead build a Walgreens.
How in the name of all that is holy does anyone have this authority in the United States?
Only in the Obama/Reid/Pelosi/Castro/Chavez world.