Eminent domain: a fair middle path? From: Nation's Cities Weekly | Date: November 7, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 National League of Cities. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

NEW LONDON, Conn. -- Sparks continue to fly across the country as a result of last June's U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding this city's use of eminent domain powers to seize homes in a working-class neighborhood so that a private developer could build a riverfront hotel and office complex.

Measures to curb or totally forbid taking of private property for economic development projects have been introduced in at least 35 states, according to the Institute for Justice, the self-described libertarian law firm that represented Susette Kelo and other New London homeowners in ...

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