Writing in Focus on Property Rights
Focus on Property Rights
There are plenty of stories about the growing abuse of eminent domain
law, in which government seizes land from a private owner in order to
redevelop it to grow an area’s tax base. Writing in Freedom Daily,
George Leef describes the import of the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court
ruling in a much-publicized case on the subject: Kelo vs. City of New
London. “For many homeowners, eminent domain is merely a fancy term for
legal mugging,” he explains. Those who wish for eminent domain law to
be reigned in to be consistent with its constitutional underpinnings
are hoping that
