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Supreme Court Won't Hear Port Chester Land-Grab Case

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday bypassed an opportunity to revisit or limit its much-disputed 2005 ruling that upheld governmental power to use eminent domain to foster economic development. Without comment, the justices declined to hear a case from Port Chester in Westchester County, N.Y., that challenged the village’s use of eminent domain in a dispute between a property owner and a private company designated as the developer of a run-down 27-acre urban renewal area. (New York Times ^[1], Wednesday)

Legal extortion.

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Kelo v. City of New London: Do We Need Eminent Domain for Economic Growth? ^[2] by George C. Leef

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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/washington/17scotus.html?_r=1amp;oref=slogin

[2] Kelo v. City of New London: Do We Need Eminent Domain for Economic Growth?: http://64.233.167.104/custom?q=cache:Xr4NQY8MLJIJ:www.fee.org/pdf/the-freeman/1105LeefArticle.pdf+eminent+domainamp;hl=enamp;gl=usamp;ct=clnkamp;cd=2

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