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A 2011 Michelle Malkin column ties Donalad Trump to eminent domain abuses. The highlights:
New Jersey has the State Farmland Preservation Project. Farms that are active in the project are armed with information including:
In Atlanta people sued when Cobb County tried to seek bonds to finance a stadium for the Braves.
The Court boiled it down to “national pasttime” and “economic benefit.” the Atlanta Braves are a public benefit.
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The trend that keeps on growing: regulators denying eminent domain authority for private entities.
In this case, Missouri regulators denied eminent domain authority for an electricity transmission line that would run through Missouri but would supply electricity to the benefit of Kansas.
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
“The Missouri Public Service Commission’s 3-2 vote to deny the Grain Belt Express project’s route stalls the entire line, which already won approval from Kansas and…
Eminent domain may be used by Jersey Village against 16 businesses and institutions so that the Village can relocate water and sewer.
California is actively building high speed rail. This week the State Public Works Board approved its 246th condemantion resolution since 2013. Fresno Bee
Not only is aquiring land time consuming, but California’s experience is also teaching us that high speed rail is a lengthy process. To move high speed rail along more quickly, the California legislature added a budget rider that will:
A North Carolina Appeallate Court ruled that widening a road, at the end of a dead end street, does not qualify as a public use.
How did eminent domain use for economic development purposes fare, even with the US Supreme Court’s blessing in Kelo? There were no winners.
Other states have reigned in eminent domain authority by denying eminent domain when there is no public use. Their actions have been via court action, legislation, and regulatory denial of permitting.
The classic example has become a pipeline or transmission line that does not provide service or use to any part of the state through which it passes.
Joining the legislative trend to reign in eminent domain standard of public use. President of the Cattle Raisers writes,”In m…
A transmission line that was denied eminent domain in Arkansas, faces a second denial for the use of eminent domain because the transmission company cannot show need.
From the regulators:
” A Missouri Public Service Commission staff report found that while CLEP demonstrated abilities to …