Category Archives: stadium

Local TREND. Use Eminent Domain to Keep a Valued Asset in your City. Eminent Domain & the Horse Track.

Baltimore looks to condemn the Preakness Stakes to keep it from moving.

What does Baltimore say? State law also allows condemnation of the Preakness’ intellectual property, so include that too

Sound weird? Once upon a time Oakland thought of the idea ot keep the Raiders there. 

The Volokh Conspiracy | Baltimore Tries to Use Eminent Domain to Condemn the Preakness Stakes Horse Race

Wall Street Journal | Will Baltimore Make Off With the Races? 

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…

Refreshing our Recollection | READ THE BILL | Cities Build Quickly with Expedited Eminent Domain Process

 

 

 

California Legislature passed AB 987 (2018 | CA) that streamlines building a new stadium for the Clippers & construction by the Oakland A’s by:​

  • requiring litigation to be resolved within 270 days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings

NBC Sports | Pro Basketball Talk | State legislature helps Clippers take next step toward new home arena 

San Francisco Chronicle | Legislature passes bill to help Oakland A’s streamline construction of a Howard Terminal stadium

3 Reasons to "Revolt over Eminent Domain"

The American Conservative’s “Why the Public Must Revolt Over Eminent Domain” calls for a public revolt because:

  • Too much falls into Public Use. The Supreme Court in Kelo allows for a broad use of eminnt domain due to the broad interpretation of “public use”
  • Eminent Domain Abuse. State courts, federal circuit courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court have all failed to protect people from eminent domain abuse
  • Cronyism. Only the public can stand up to “cronyist land grabs”

What triggered this? Boise…

Lege TREND. How to Cut Down Eminent Domain Litigation

California Legislature passed AB 987 (2018 | CA) that streamlines building a new stadium for the Clippers & construction by the Oakland A’s by:​

  • requiring litigation to be resolved within 270 days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings

NBC Sports | Pro Basketball Talk | State legislature helps Clippers take next step toward new home arena 

San Francisco Chronicle | Legislature passes bill to help Oakland A’s streamline construction of a Howard Terminal stadium

Local TREND. Stadium Opposition and Eminent Domain. 3 Opposition Arguments.

The stadium: FC Cincinnati

The opposition Op-Ed author: A former Cincinnati mayor and founder and CEO of the Center for Closing the Health Gap

The eminent domain problem:

  • History is a problem. 
    •  In the 1950s 26,000, mostly minority residents, were displaced from eminent domain for an redevelopment project
    • When I-75 was expanded, the same displacement of minority residents occurred
  • Relocation never occured. The 1950s eminent domain use did not bring relocation to fruition
  • There was no…

Eminent Domain Protests at the Super Bowl. Stadium Sponsor is the Target. Seriously. Who. What. Where.

Who: Opponents to the Dakota Access Pipeline from Iowa + Indigenous Iowans and others from across the Midwest

Why: to protest the four-state pipeline eminent domain

Where: Protesting eminent domain at the Super Bowl in Minneapolis at the US Bank Stadium.  U.S. Bank has a banking relationship with the pipeline company

Des Moines Register  | Iowa environmentalists heading to Super Bowl to protest Dakota Access pipeline

Attorney General Threatens Eminent Domain for Sports Team After Stadium Plan Announced in Other State. 3 Key Points.

The Professional Sports Team: Crew SC, an MLS team in Columbus OH

What is the basis for the eminent domain threat by OH’s Attorney General?  “Art Modell Law” which Ohio passed after the Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore

What does the Art Modell Law require? A professional sports team that receives taxpayer funds cannot move without approval of the city or without offering the team for sale

Fox 28 | Ohio Attorney General sends letter to Crew SC owner threatening to sue 

RI stadium Bill Reigns in Eminent Domain. Anatomy of a Bill. Read the Bill.

Rhode Island wants to build a new PawSox stadium.

To get to a new stadium, legislators filed S-0990 & S-0989, that included funding requirements, new eminent domain provisions, and reworking the definition of blight.

Public input on the eminent domain provisions & transparency concerns raised by the State Republican Chair, led to the removal of new eminent domain and blight provisions. 

RINPR | Revised PawSox Bill Steers More Revenue To Pawtucket; Outlook In RI House Uncertain

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