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Article: real estate; Crist: Court Decision Doesn't Threaten Florida Property Owners
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- Solares Hill
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- July 1, 2005
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Last week the U.S. Supreme Court, in Kelo v. City of New London, held that a Connecticut city may use its eminent domain authority to take private property even when the sole purpose is to provide economic revitalization through private development. Florida's Attorney General Charlie Crist tells private property owners not to worry.
Under the Court's ruling, citizens who have lived in an area their entire lives could be displaced to make way for private development. This subjects private property rights to the whim of municipal government and, undermines the guarantee of our Founding Fathers that private property should only be taken for a public purpose. This decision has generated much ...