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Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes
    #4327923 - 06/23/05 09:38 AM (18 years, 9 months ago)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050623/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_seizing_property_2

Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer



The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses ? even against their will ? for private economic development.

It was a decision fraught with huge implications for a country with many areas, particularly the rapidly growing urban and suburban areas, facing countervailing pressures of development and property ownership rights.

The 5-4 ruling represented a defeat for some Connecticut residents whose homes are slated for destruction to make room for an office complex. They argued that cities have no right to take their land except for projects with a clear public use, such as roads or schools, or to revitalize blighted areas.

As a result, cities now have wide power to bulldoze residences for projects such as shopping malls and hotel complexes in order to generate tax revenue.

Local officials, not federal judges, know best in deciding whether a development project will benefit the community, justices said.

"The city has carefully formulated an economic development that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including ? but by no means limited to ? new jobs and increased tax revenue," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority.

He was joined by Justice Anthony Kennedy, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer.

At issue was the scope of the Fifth Amendment, which allows governments to take private property through eminent domain if the land is for "public use."

Susette Kelo and several other homeowners in a working-class neighborhood in New London, Conn., filed suit after city officials announced plans to raze their homes for a riverfront hotel, health club and offices.

New London officials countered that the private development plans served a public purpose of boosting economic growth that outweighed the homeowners' property rights, even if the area wasn't blighted.

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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: DNKYD]
    #4328363 - 06/23/05 11:52 AM (18 years, 9 months ago)

This makes me sick :shake:

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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: DNKYD]
    #4328405 - 06/23/05 12:03 PM (18 years, 9 months ago)

:puke:

Some great men are rolling in their graves


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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: DNKYD]
    #4328808 - 06/23/05 02:04 PM (18 years, 9 months ago)

The Supreme Court sucks recently. Especially the liberals in it, the conservatives are actually the ones fighting for our freedoms.


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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: Ravus]
    #4329536 - 06/23/05 05:44 PM (18 years, 9 months ago)

Our rights are quickly being tossed in the can and flushed.


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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: Ekstaza]
    #4329582 - 06/23/05 05:57 PM (18 years, 9 months ago)

Yeah. The Fourth Amendment takes another hit.  :frown: Jesus, why don't they just repeal the entire Bill of Rights? The Republicans sure seem to dislike it so....

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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: Le_Canard]
    #4329630 - 06/23/05 06:07 PM (18 years, 9 months ago)

This is very shitty I can see how some corrupt politicians will buy land from people for crap and then go sell it to some rich land developers. I can see how this will work in Detroit and places of that nature and ppl will get screwed over.


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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: Le_Canard]
    #4330188 - 06/23/05 08:16 PM (18 years, 9 months ago)

If you're talking about the Supreme Court, it's not the Republican elected justices that are doing the damage... the Democrat ones are the ones who are flushing America down the toilet one case at a time.


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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: Ravus]
    #4330741 - 06/23/05 10:52 PM (18 years, 9 months ago)

Who thought it was a good idea to let justices serve life terms? I think we need to change that rule.

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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: Ravus]
    #4331030 - 06/24/05 12:18 AM (18 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

Ravus said:
If you're talking about the Supreme Court, it's not the Republican elected justices that are doing the damage... the Democrat ones are the ones who are flushing America down the toilet one case at a time.






Hrm...you're right. I had assumed with the recent decisions that Reagan and Bush Sr. had "packed" the courts. WTF were they thinking???  :confused:

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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: Le_Canard]
    #4331045 - 06/24/05 12:24 AM (18 years, 9 months ago)

One party system, that's what I say happened, TD


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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: delta9]
    #4347526 - 06/28/05 05:06 PM (18 years, 9 months ago)

http://www.freestarmedia.com/hotellostliberty2.html

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Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.

Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.

On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.

Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.

The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts Caf?" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."

Clements indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans.

"This is not a prank" said Clements, "The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter we can begin our hotel development."

Clements' plan is to raise investment capital from wealthy pro-liberty investors and draw up architectural plans. These plans would then be used to raise investment capital for the project. Clements hopes that regular customers of the hotel might include supporters of the Institute For Justice and participants in the Free State Project among others.




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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: Vulture]
    #4350515 - 06/29/05 12:29 PM (18 years, 9 months ago)

This country is fucked.

I'm packing my bags and moving ASAP.


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Re: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes [Re: kake]
    #4350884 - 06/29/05 02:17 PM (18 years, 9 months ago)

read that last post :smile:

the guy who voted to approve this is having his land seized..LOL


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