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Article: States debate use of eminent domain; Supreme Court's ruling have made legislators rethink government's property-taking powers
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- February 6, 2006
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LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) - The city wants Anna DeFaria's home, and
if she doesn't sell willingly, officials are going to take it from
the 80-year-old retired preschool teacher.
In place of her "tiny slip of a bungalow" - and two dozen other
weathered, working-class beachfront homes - city officials want
private developers to build upscale townhouses.
Is this the work of a cruel government? Or the best hope for
resurrecting a town that finally is showing signs of reviving after
decades of hard times?
Echoes of the debate are happening across the country, after a
U.S. Supreme Court decision brought new attention to governments'
ability to seize property through the tool of eminent domain. Some ...