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Remember Kelo?

By Tom Kirkendall

Check out this recent Second Circuit decision (H/T to Robert Loblaw) as an example of how the appellate courts are applying the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial 2006 decision in Kelo v. New London. Kelo allows the state to seize private property to facilitate private re-development as a legitimate form of "public use" under the U.S. Constitution. Kelo has been widely criticized for creating perverse incentives for politically well-connected real estate developers to exercise their read more

Full post as published by Houston's Clear Thinkers on April 11, 2008 (boomark / email).