{"id":251,"date":"2015-05-21T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/05\/21\/history-of-eminent-domain-from-the-us-department-of-justice\/"},"modified":"2015-05-21T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T23:03:00","slug":"history-of-eminent-domain-from-the-us-department-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/history-of-eminent-domain-from-the-us-department-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Eminent Domain from the US Department of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a reminder that it&#8217;s really just your bad local governments that use eminent domain, the Department of Justice has put up a series of delightful photos detailing the history of eminent domain use by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The History lesson:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;whenever the United States acquires a property through eminent domain, it has a constitutional responsibility to justly compensate the property owner for the fair market value of the property.\u00a0 See\u00a0<em>Bauman v. Ross<\/em>, 167 U.S. 548 (1897);\u00a0<em>Kirby Forest Industries, Inc. v. United States<\/em>, 467 U.S. 1, 9-10 (1984).&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Federal government does nice things with eminent domain:facilitate transportation, supply water, construct public buildings, aid in defense readiness, construct\u00a0of public buildings and aqueducts to provide cities with drinking water,\u00a0maintain\u00a0navigable waters,\u00a0production of war materials, and build pretty things like parks and the Gettysburg Railway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/enrd\/history-federal-use-eminent-domain\">Justice.Gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a reminder that it&#8217;s really just your bad local governments that use eminent domain, the Department of Justice has put up a series of delightful photos detailing the history of eminent domain use by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The History lesson:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;whenever the United States acquires a property through eminent domain, it has a constitutional responsibility to justly compensate the property owner for the fair market value of the property.\u00a0 See\u00a0<em>Bauman v. Ross<\/em>, 167&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,25,7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parks","category-railways","category-roads","category-water","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}