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Which 2 swing states are propping up property rights? PA in Robinson Township v. Commonwealth & OH in Kinder Morgan utopia v. PDB Farms
How are these states at the forefront of property rights trend? Courts in each of the state’s have denied private businesses from using eminent domain when no public benefit exists
What’s the kicker on public benefit? Both of the projects denied eminent domain authority were moving goods over a common carrier to Canada with no facilities in the…
An Ohio Court has stopped the power of eminent domain for a pipeline in Ohio based on this rational:
Sandusky Register | Ruling could help farmers battling pipelines
The project that seeks the authority of eminent domain: A new stadium in El Paso
What a real estate developer says:
What the city says:
ABC 7 KVIA | Real estate broker, property owner shed light into eminent domain process
The research on contracts that led to the Nobel Prize in economics included analysis of private property rights contracts.
The takeaway from the research: “contracts should make clear what needs to be done to deal with future disagreements between parties rather than center on specific requirements.”
VOA NEWS | Nobel Prize Winners Studied Agreements Affecting Everyone
Who is pushing more private property rights in groundwater? Senator Perry
The impetus to strengthen these private proeprty rights? Some bad actors in the water district world
Lubbock Avalanche Journal | Sen. Perry gives overview of upcoming session at HPWD’s meeting
Where: Ohio
Who or what denied eminent domain authority? A state judge
What project was denied eminent domain authority? A pipeline that would move natural gas froma shale region in Ohio to a facility in Canada
Why wasn’t public use of benefit met? Because the benefit from the poeject was found to be the end point of the pipeline in Canada. The jobs created in Ohio were not persuasive to the court.
The Toledo Blade | Wood County judge nixes pipeline builder’s eminent domain plans
TPPF’s “Legislators Guide to the Issues 2017-2018” offers these property rights recommendations:
Where is this happening? Atlantic City, NJ
What is Atlantic City doing with abandoned property? taking over abandonded property using eminent domain
Is the city keeping the property it takes by eminent domain or reselling it? Reselling it to developers
How does this fit with blight laws? It is “spot blight eminent domain” thereby instead of taking multiple parcels of land, it is specific abandonded parcels of land
In a laundry list of pipeline reforms, a newspaper recommends prohibiting eminent domain when the public good is in whole or part exported.
The targets: Private companies with eminent domain authority like transmission lines & pipelines
The Recorder | Greenfield Massachustees | Lets Fix Pipeline Review Steps
What legal case is involved? South LaFourche Levee District v. Chad M. Jarreau
Tell me what happened?