{"id":933,"date":"2017-11-13T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/11\/13\/unusual-eminent-domain-bill-states-buying-professional-sports-franchises\/"},"modified":"2017-11-13T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:52:00","slug":"unusual-eminent-domain-bill-states-buying-professional-sports-franchises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/unusual-eminent-domain-bill-states-buying-professional-sports-franchises\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Eminent Domain Bill.  States Buying Professional Sports Franchises."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a01984 the Maryland Senate passed a bill allowing the state of Maryland to use eminent domain to acquire the Colts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did Maryland want to buy the Colts?<\/strong> To prevent the franchise from leaving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did it work?<\/strong>\u00a0No, before the Maryland House could pass the bill, the owner struck and deal and moved the team to Indianapolis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/sports\/20171111\/michael-arace--powerful-are-complicit-in-crew-move-its-how-game-is-played\">Columbus Dispatch |\u00a0Michael Arace | Powerful are complicit in Crew move; it\u2019s how the game is played<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a01984 the Maryland Senate passed a bill allowing the state of Maryland to use eminent domain to acquire the Colts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did Maryland want to buy the Colts?<\/strong> To prevent the franchise from leaving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did it work?<\/strong>\u00a0No, before the Maryland House could pass the bill, the owner struck and deal and moved the team to Indianapolis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/sports\/20171111\/michael-arace--powerful-are-complicit-in-crew-move-its-how-game-is-played\">Columbus Dispatch |\u00a0Michael Arace | Powerful are complicit in Crew move; it\u2019s how the game is played<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28,2,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation-trend","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-stadium","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","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=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}