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2019 Texas Legislature Eminent Domain Playing Field. Who is Where & What are all these Associations?

The 2 umbrella assocaitions in the bruhaha:

Texans for Property Rights “dedicated to protecting property rights”
- Texas Farm Bureau
- Texas Assoc. of Realtors
- Texas Wildlife Association
- Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Assoc.
- TWITTER (October 2016)
Coalition for Critical Infrastructure ” help maintain Texas’ positive business climate and quality of life by addressing our growing need for roads and highways; oil, natural gas and water pipelines; electric transmission and…

The Candidate: Ohio Governor candidate Dennis Kucinich (D)

The eminent domain use: The City of Massillon, Ohio should use eminent domain to keep the Affinity Medical Center open

The public uses: a hospital & 800 jobs

A group of physicians writing in the Washington Post argue the federal government should be able to use eminent domain for drug prices.

The intel:

The federal government has the power to use patents
The federal government has used this “eminent domain” power of drugs in 2001
- It was used as leverage during the 2001 anthrax attacks when the federal government suggested it would import the drugs rather than buy the drugs through Bayer. Bayer lowered its price and reached an argeement with…

Federal Law Says So. The because I said so reason from the government for siezing drug companies patents is rooted in 28 U.S.C. section 1498.
Reasonable Compensation to Pharmaceuticals. Drug companies would get “reasonable and entire compensation”
The government doesn’t have to get consent. The government can use any patent without consent so long as the compensation is ” “reasonable and entire.”

The question: does the fear of eminent domain to take drug patents bring about…