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Article: Eminent domain: a fair middle path?(Commentary)(Column)
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- Government Finance Review
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- February 1, 2006
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Sparks continue to fly across the country as a result of last June's U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding this city's use of eminent domain powers to seize homes in a working-class neighborhood so that a private developer could build a riverfront hotel and office complex.
Measures to curb or totally forbid taking of private property for economic development projects have been introduced in at least 35 states, according to the Institute for Justice, the self-described libertarian law firm that represented Susette Kelo and other New London homeowners in their unsuccessful court bid.
Among the states with serious proposals to amend their state ...