Brian, Her comments were exactly what I was trying to get across in the other thread. Now City Planners can use acquistion of Taxes as a means to take personal propery. There is a situation in Houston in which a family owned river front business is about to lose 300 feet of their property so a developer can build a marina and restaurant - by eminent domain. Guess we will all need powerful corporate lawyers to keep our homes.
Larry On 6/24/05, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you so much for the link. The dissenting opinions of Justices > O'Connor and Thomas are what I found most enlightening. I couldn't agree > with them more. > > Brian > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "S Chapin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <Biofuel@sustainablelists.org> > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:03 AM > Subject: [Biofuel] re property taking supreme court > > > > Brian, > > http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/23jun20051201/www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/04pdf/04-108.pdf > > or go to Common Dreams .org and look for US Supreme Court link (right side > > somewhere). See also NYT article by Linda Greenhouse. > > Difference between "public use" and "public purpose"? Pfizer > > pharmacueticals will build a research complex. (who are BTW immune under > > the patriot act from lawsuits?) I wonder if under the same arguement > > "public purpose" could enable a community to declare a Wal-Mart eminent > > domain and turn it into a hospital?? > > S. Chapin > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Biofuel mailing list > > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > > messages): > > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
