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Transcript: KYL BLASTS SUPREME COURT 'KELO' DECISION AT JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HEARING
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- September 20, 2005
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Capitol Hill Press Releases
09-20-2005
For Immediate Release Kyl Blasts Supreme Court 'Kelo' Decision at Judiciary
Committee Hearing Contacts: Scot Montrey (Print) 202-224-2206 September
20, 2005 Urges Passage of Legislation to Reverse Notion that 'Public Good'
Amounts to 'Just About Anything That Results in a Higher Tax Base' WASHINGTON,
D.C. - U.S. Senator Jon Kyl today sharply criticized a recent Supreme Court
decision allowing cities and towns to take private property and transfer
it to another private owner under the auspices of economic development
for "the public good." In Kelo v. City of New London, the court ruled in
June that the city of New London, CT could condemn property in an ...