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Originally posted by: ricarleite
What you're saying is, the government can bulldozer your house to build a freeway and not even compensate you for that? Isn't that absolutely illegal?
Not any more!
In the past, this would happen and typically a person would be compensated, assuming they wanted to move. However, there were many cases in which a person could refuse and there would be years of protracted eminent domain court battles, usually resulting in the person being forced out, but also usually being compensated. Now, those battles are no longer an option, and the compensation will not be forthcoming. This is incredibly dangerous, as the US legal system is (was) based on "Castle Law", eg: A man's home is his castle. That has been torn to shreds now.
I heard on a radio program yesterday that a developer in the town where the justice who wrote the majority opinion lives, is planning to push for development of the justice's 31 acres and put a hotel on it called "The Loss of Liberty" hotel, and in it have an ice cream shop called the "Just Desserts" restaurant. I hope they succeed.
