Private Property Cases
Eminent Domain | Private Property
Knocking Out Eminent Domain Abuse: Youth Gym Files Suit Against National City, Calif.
After decades of keeping two-thirds of the city under a bogus “blight” designation, National City, Calif., applied to renew the blight label to prevent it from expiring. That renewal would have reauthorized the city to…
4th Amendment Project | Private Property | Rental Inspections
Red Wing Rental Inspections
Under Red Wing, Minn.’s rental inspection ordinance, it is easier for the government to force its way into the homes of law-abiding citizens than to search the home of a suspected criminal.
Eminent Domain | Private Property
Eminent Domain Without Limits?: U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Curb Nationwide Abuses
Susette Kelo dreamed of owning a home that looked out over the water. She purchased and lovingly restored her little pink house where the Thames River meets the Long Island Sound in 1997,…