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Eminent Domain

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davidharsanyi.com

Using an “adverse possession” common law, a former judge, mayor and city council member in Boulder, Colorado, named Richard McLean, seized a couple’s land after developing an “emotional attachment” to it...And that’s all he needed.

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AP

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has agreed to mediate a long-running dispute over government reimbursement for land that was taken during World War II. The case involves 36,000 acres of farmland, and the valuable natural resource

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AP

Bullet holes still pepper a small house on the outskirts of town where two law officers died in a gun battle over a patch of land the state wanted to take for a highway project. Property rights advocates will be watching closely Monday as jury select

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AP

The city's public housing agency plans to ask a judge to bar anyone from entering projects without permission and will file claims against some who are trying to avert the buildings' demolition.

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Christian Science Monitor

Lawyers for Didden took the matter to federal court. They are asking the US Supreme Court to examine whether a private company can demand payment in exchange for refraining to seize private property in an urban renewal zone.

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Christian Science Monitor

A backlash among voters this November against an unpopular Supreme Court decision on eminent domain could dramatically curtail the ability of officials to manage growth and development in parts of the western United States.

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AP

Can Nike and this growing suburb ever be good neighbors again? After the "smoking gun?" Running up a legal bill of about $1.1 million over a file less than a couple dozen pages thick? And the judge finding the city in contempt?

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USA Today

A developer told local residents that he wanted to buy all the homes on the block, tear them down and build condos, retail shops and parking garages. He made it clear what would happen to those who refused to sell: eminent domain.

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