Entries from Searchlight Crusade tagged with 'property rights'

Title Deeds And The Form They Should Take

On a forum I frequent, someone posted this advice for prospective property purchasers: At closing, at the title office or bank, when signing the title, contract for sale or any transfer instrument (use a single obliterating line) mark out the...

Title Deeds And The Form They Should Take

On a forum I frequent, someone posted this advice for prospective property purchasers: At closing, at the title office or bank, when signing the title, contract for sale or any transfer instrument (use a single obliterating line) mark out the...

Eminent Domain and Redevelopment Areas

Next big test of power to seize property? Owner gets plans for the property approved by planning commission. But developer named for the redevelopment area demands $800,000 or 50% of the business, and sues to condemn. The developer, Gregg Wasser...

Kelo: One Year Later

A little over one year ago, the Supreme Court handed down the decision in Kelo, which held that the city of New London could condemn land to sell it to private developers in order to increase the tax base. At...

More Eminent Domain Thievery

Rhymes with Right notes an abuse of eminent domail even more abusive than Kelo vs. New London. A man in his Texas city was forced to sell a 105 acre parcel to the Port of Houston for $1. The Port...

Daily Links and Minifeatures 2005 07 23 Saturday (and 24 Sunday)

Looks like they've identified something to fight one component of Alzheimer's Cool! ********** Common Sense and Wonder notes the real reason we can't post the Ten Commandments in courthouses: harrassment regulations. "TEN COMMANDMENTS The real reason that we can't have...

Updated Parameters for Solving Kelo

Back on July first, I posted Solving Kelo - Seeking Parameters for a Solution. As I wrote then: When you're in my current profession, you can't help but learn that public condemnation of private property for private use has a...

Fixing Kelo - a proposal

My mind wouldn't let me leave it alone. I got to thinking about how to fix this. I think Congress could do fix this tomorrow. Simple Public Law. The Congress of the United States, wishing to discourage abuse of eminent...

Kelo

Today's truly huge topic in the blogosphere is of course the Kelo decision from the Supreme Court. It's not that I'm uninterested. Quite the contrary. But so many from Eugene Volokh to Glenn Reynolds to Michelle Malkin to several of...