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Remember Kelo?
Check out this recent Second Circuit decision (H/T to Robert Loblaw) as an example of how the appellate courts are applying the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial 2006 decision in Kelo v. New London. Kelo allows the state to seize...
More ripples from Kelo
The economic and legal impact of the Supreme Court's controversial decision last year in Kelo v. New London has been a common topic on this blog, so this Institute for Justice press release on a property dispute that arose from...
Don't tell Metro about this
This NY Sunday Times article (hat tip to Peter Lattman) reports on the efforts of the wealthy Long Island enclave of North Hills' efforts to use the power of eminent domain -- following last year's controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision...
Epstein on Bork's Originalism
In this previous post, former Solicitor General and unsuccessful Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork provided a handy shorthand description of the judicial philosophy of originalism. In a letter to Wall Street Journal's ($) editor yesterday, Richard A. Epstein --...
Kelo ripples hit the Cowboys stadium project
As noted in this earlier post, the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Kelo v. City of New London inevitably will have ripples, including the use of government's eminent domain power to increase the value of privately-owned professional sports franchises...
Epstein on judicial activism
Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, and the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In this Wall Street Journal ($) op-ed on the nomination...
Ripples from the Kelo decision
Professor Sauer over at the Sports Economist reflects in this post on the impact of the Kelo decision on governmental promotion of redevelopment boondoggles related to new stadium construction. The entire post is a must read, as reflected by the...
The latest reason to build a new baseball stadium
Apart from the redevelopment boondoggles that will necessarily follow from the U.S. Supreme Court's Kelo decision, this Washington Post article reports on yet another reason that governmental promoters will cite to support this....
Governmental economic development run amok?
In a controversial 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kelo v. New London on Thursday that a local government may seize private property in facilitating profit-making private re-development as a legitimate form of "public use" under the Constitution....
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