The Fifth Amendment says that the government must pay just compensation when it takes private property for public use, a command that, regrettably, is often treated as a mere suggestion. On this episode, we take a look at a variety of gambits and flim-flammeries that let the government take property without paying for it.
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Resources
Gideon Kanner and Michael Berger, The Nasty, Brutish, and Short Life of Agins v. Tiburon
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