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High Court: Govts Can Take Property for Econ Development
Bloomberg News

Posted on 06/23/2005 7:30:08 AM PDT by Helmholtz

U.S. Supreme Court says cities have broad powers to take property.


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To: Helmholtz
We fought England over lessor grievances.
641 posted on 06/23/2005 11:33:01 AM PDT by mict42
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To: MamaTexan
Is it time YET???

Time for what?

This ballot box vs. ammo box choice is no choice at all.

Best to do things quietly. If your property becomes a target, find a key target and take them down. Smear them. Cause their marriage to fail. Get their relatives fired. Get dirty.

642 posted on 06/23/2005 11:33:18 AM PDT by Haru Hara Haruko
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To: from occupied ga
we should accept any law

LOL

It is not the American Way. Power resides in the People. We still control which representatives sit in office. It should not be so dificult to find representatives more to our liking.

643 posted on 06/23/2005 11:33:20 AM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: Vicomte13

While, I like the idea that there is no judicial review in your constitution, France has something far worse---Brussels review.


And remember ANgela Merkleberger will elected soon in Deutschland- a euro conservative.


644 posted on 06/23/2005 11:34:34 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: blueriver
If a state legislature writes a law prohibiting this a person can sue that it is unconstituional and the law can easily be maid null and void by the men that were black robes.

That is stage 2. The SCOTUS ruling will be held to be more restrictive.

645 posted on 06/23/2005 11:35:04 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Uncle Vlad
> Why worry about terrorists anymore? The country is over as we know it.

I say 911 was an success for the terrorists. We imploded according to their plan.

8^>
BM
646 posted on 06/23/2005 11:35:34 AM PDT by blazematrix
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To: Stellar Dendrite
... Welcome to the USSA

UASS ~ Union of American Socialist States

647 posted on 06/23/2005 11:36:22 AM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: blueriver

The most salient point about O'Connor's dissent is that the people who will be harmed will be the one's without resources: i.e., the poor and the middle class. It will be a lot easier and attractive for a local government to "take" marginal properties when McMansion Developers, Inc. comes in with a blueprint to cram 50 new, higher-tax generating homes where 15 now sit. This is a no-brainer. We have to especially defend the poor on this. If people get comfortable thinking "my property's not at risk because it's worth too much", then this will never be reversed, and shame on us as a people if that happens.


648 posted on 06/23/2005 11:36:31 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: Haru Hara Haruko
"Best to do things quietly. If your property becomes a target, find a key target and take them down. Smear them. Cause their marriage to fail. Get their relatives fired. Get dirty.

What? You want us to use liberal tactics??
649 posted on 06/23/2005 11:37:21 AM PDT by Outland (Some people are damned lucky that I don't have Bill Gates' checkbook.)
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To: Outland; clintonh8r

Not a shooting war.

It will be a war of attrition against the agents of tyrrany. If they pay with their lives they become martyrs. If they pay with their marriages, their sanity, their chlderen's ability to make friends, their family's career prospects, they will become demorlaized and ineffective.


650 posted on 06/23/2005 11:37:59 AM PDT by Haru Hara Haruko
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To: Myrddin

Buying homes in established residential areas carry zero risk. This decision sucks, but please don't scare people into thinking the government is about to seize everyone's homes.

This was a residential zone, and with the stroke of a pen, the local politico's turned it into mixed use.


651 posted on 06/23/2005 11:38:24 AM PDT by MrNeutron1962
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To: AntiGuv
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny,...when the government fears the people, there is liberty" - Thomas Jefferson

/jasper

652 posted on 06/23/2005 11:38:30 AM PDT by Jasper ( Craigellachie, Stand Fast!)
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To: Outland

Be effective. That is all. That is the only thing.


653 posted on 06/23/2005 11:39:13 AM PDT by Haru Hara Haruko
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To: MamaTexan
Is it time YET???

The frog is dead and ready to be served.

654 posted on 06/23/2005 11:39:24 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (Some day we may have to choose whether we'll be a criminal or a collaborator.)
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To: Haru Hara Haruko

What really ticks me off about this is that Foxnews is not even covering this. I guess a rich teenager on summer vacation is more important.


655 posted on 06/23/2005 11:39:34 AM PDT by Outraged At FLA
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To: BJClinton

Good. I try as well.


656 posted on 06/23/2005 11:40:18 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: MrNeutron1962

"Buying homes in established residential areas carry zero risk."


Wrong. Many areas desire Wal-Marts and strip-malls right smack in the middle of residential areas. To date, most cities have been afraid of the court challenges to such actions, but now they have a Supreme King ruling to do so.


657 posted on 06/23/2005 11:40:27 AM PDT by shellshocked (They're undocumented Border Patrol agents, not vigilantes.)
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To: Vicomte13
the problem is that there is no national limit on what a "public use" is.

The national money is controlled by a private bank. Even the Post Office is a quasi-private corporation. Many public utilities have been sold and are now corporations. This is done to reduce the size of gov't, yet the services are still required and continue to be expanded [by citizen request, BTW].

These are a species of public use, but outside the operation of the gov't itself. The State itself is far more than the gov't, and always has been, it is just that we see a few things from time to time that cause alarm because we have allowed these services to move outside direct control of the republic.

658 posted on 06/23/2005 11:41:16 AM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: Vicomte13

One caution I would recommend is that you should not extrapolate opinions expressed on Free Republic to represent the United States as a whole. This is not a slam at Free Republic, but rather at the complacency of the electorate as a whole. Specifically, nationwide approval of the Supreme Court still hovers above the 60th percentile. If overall disapproval of the courts were as rampant as you incorrectly perceive, then things would be changed by the legislatures - which are the ultimate arbiters - via Constitutional amendment.

This is not a statement on the merit of any court decision, but on your assessment of the US Constitutional system.


659 posted on 06/23/2005 11:41:22 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: Haru Hara Haruko

"Best to do things quietly. If your property becomes a target, find a key target and take them down. Smear them. Cause their marriage to fail. Get their relatives fired. Get dirty.
"


I like the tar and feather idea of our founding fathers!


660 posted on 06/23/2005 11:41:29 AM PDT by shellshocked (They're undocumented Border Patrol agents, not vigilantes.)
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