> From: paul dove <[email protected]> > > Eminent Domain cannot be used to enrich corporations. I t can only take > private land for public use.
Not so! In 2005, the US Supreme Court ruled (Kelo v. City of New London, 5-4 decision) that eminent domain applied to a local government's idea of "public INTEREST," not simply "public use." In this particular case, the city wanted to "upscale" a neighbourhood, and kicked dozens of retired people out of their paid-up houses that they had planned to live out their lives in, in favour of building condos, by a private developer. This was also supposed to bring lots of new tax revenue to the city. So, your local government could take your house away and hand it over to a developer. It's been done, and it's been tested in the court. https://www.foxnews.com/us/eminent-domain-kelo-v-city-of-new-london-and-a-pink-house :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
