{"id":788,"date":"2017-04-27T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/04\/27\/legal-trend-what-happens-when-a-state-defines-private-property-right-as-a-fundamental-right\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T19:25:00","slug":"legal-trend-what-happens-when-a-state-defines-private-property-right-as-a-fundamental-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/legal-trend-what-happens-when-a-state-defines-private-property-right-as-a-fundamental-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend. What happens when a state defines private property right as a &#34;fundamental right?&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The state:<\/strong>\u00a0Virgina<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legislative action at issue:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0In 2003 the VA Constitution added:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;That the General Assembly shall pass no law whereby private property, the right to which is fundamental, shall be damaged or taken except for public use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The VA Supreme Court:<\/strong>\u00a0What happens if the Court rules that the right to private property is fundamental:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>shift zoning cases\u00a0to judges, from local governments<\/li>\n<li>zoning cases will have heavier scrutiny<\/li>\n<li>court dockets would be clogged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsleader.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/04\/26\/how-county-pipeline-case-va-supreme-court-could-shape-eminent-domain-law\/306658001\/\">News Leader |\u00a0How county pipeline case in Va. Supreme Court could shape eminent domain law<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The state:<\/strong>\u00a0Virgina<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legislative action at issue:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0In 2003 the VA Constitution added:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;That the General Assembly shall pass no law whereby private property, the right to which is fundamental, shall be damaged or taken except for public use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The VA Supreme Court:<\/strong>\u00a0What happens if the Court rules that the right to private property is fundamental:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>shift zoning cases\u00a0to judges, from local governments<\/li>\n<li>zoning cases will have heavier scrutiny<\/li>\n<li>court dockets would be clogged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsleader.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/04\/26\/how-county-pipeline-case-va-supreme-court-could-shape-eminent-domain-law\/306658001\/\">News Leader |\u00a0How\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-legislation-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}