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To: COUNTrecount

Exactly! Trump was using eminent domain to kick her out of her house! She had to hire lawyers and spend time fighting to keep her house. That is un-American. Especially for a casino parking lot.


66 posted on 02/19/2016 8:53:33 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton
Your reading comprehension is frightening. Try to understand what actually happened. Atlantic City condemned her house. Trump was not involved.

When Coking refused to sell to Trump, the city of Atlantic City condemned her house, using the power of eminent domain. Her designated compensation was to be $251,000,[4] about one quarter of what Guccione had offered her 10 years earlier.

With the assistance of the Institute for Justice, Coking fought the local authorities, and eventually prevailed.[5] Superior Court Judge Richard Williams ruled that, because there were “no limits” on what Trump could do with the property, the plan to take Coking’s property did not meet the test of law. But Williams’ ruling did not reject the practice of using eminent domain to take private property from one individual and transferring it to another, which would eventually be upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in Kelo v. City of New London.

76 posted on 02/19/2016 9:10:39 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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