Eminent Domain Abuse (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Tuesday, 24 December 2002

Eminent Domain Abuse

Nick Gillespie at Hit & Run notes the latest attempt to abuse eminent domain for private gain, this time in the Cincinnati 'burbs. Not only is the practice blatantly unconstitutional, it's also bad public policy: delegitimating a tool intended to ensure property owners are fairly compensated when their land is unavoidably taken. The local politicos deserve the reaming they'll surely get from the Institute for Justice on this one.

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