Pfizer move a new blow to Conn. city in land fight

After drug giant Pfizer Inc. announced that it was opening a new research center here, city officials aggressively moved to acquire surrounding land for an economic development project — triggering an epic fight over eminent domain that reached the U.S. Supreme Court and ended with residents being forced from their homes.

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Conn. land vacant 4 years after court OK'd seizure

Weeds, glass, bricks, pieces of pipe and shingle splinters have replaced the knot of aging homes at the site of the nation's most notorious eminent domain project.

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Calif. voters face rent control, eminent domain initiatives

Barbara Gonzalez has lived in a two-bedroom duplex in northwest Los Angeles for 13 years, protected from the region's soaring housing costs by the city's rent-control ordinance.

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40 States Re-Examining Eminent Domain

The city wants Anna DeFaria's home, and if she doesn't sell willingly, officials are going to take it from the 80-year-old retired pre-school teacher.

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The Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London stands as one of the worst in recent years, handing local governments carte blanche to seize private property in the name of economic development.

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A decade ago, the town of New London, Connecticut claimed Kelo's house by right of eminent domain. The plan was to demolish the residential neighborhood so that Pfizer could built a massive research and development plant on the adjacent land.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)—Homeowners and businesses resisting the forced sales of their properties for a massive development in Brooklyn told New York's top court Wednesday that it's unconstitutional for a state agency to use eminent domain to get them out.

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LOYALTON – Dave Goicoechea often tells people he's "just a farmer."

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Now that the Palestinians have rejected an independent state (under the reasonable condition that they recognize Israel's right to exist), there is nothing further to discuss with them.

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PITTSBURGH – The government will begin taking land from seven property owners so that the Flight 93 memorial can be built in time for the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, the National Park Service said.

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Economic development can and has occurred regularly without the forced taking of a private citizen's home or business. The "Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2009" H.R.

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Rampant redistribution of wealth by government is now the norm. So is this: This redistribution inflames government's natural rapaciousness and subverts the rule of law.

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Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat hopes to reach an agreement on the relocation of Arab residents living in illegally constructed homes in east Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood, to make way for a planned archaeological park adjacent to the City of David.

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6,000: Illegal homes built in eastern Jerusalem with financial assistance from the Palestinian Authority.

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It's time to start paying attention to what is going on in our world today folks. "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists". Never were truer words spoken. Just so happens that most of us are clueless as to who "they" are.

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At some point along the line, with all of these concerns, the knowledge that Columbia University can or will invoke eminent domain has caused them to seek out alternative space arrangements." Even when the university isn't taking direct action, its very presence drives away busin …

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The Time Machine

If we the people now no longer require that our governments defend what they know is right, how can we ever expect that in the future they will do what they know is right.

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Bill of Rights Debate, Fifth Amendment - Part 5 of 10 Part Series

The Fifth Amendment:

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The little pink house that was the centerpiece of the U.S. Supreme Court's infamous Kelo v. New London decision is standing once again.

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If water is the new oil, T. Boone Pickens is a modern-day John D. Rockefeller. Pickens owns more water than any other individual in the U.S. and is looking to control even more.

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Forty Years Past - Columbia University Protests - Two Views

Forty years ago Columbia University in uptown Manhattan was the scene of student protests that erupted into violent riots over the university's involvement in research for US defense contractors involved with the Vietnam War and a public property land grab of park space in Ha …

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Dot Reid is retaliating against plans to bulldoze her home and 71 others in Kirkby, to make way for Everton's new stadium and a Tesco supermarket. The 58-year-old said Sir Terry, who lives in a mansion in Hertfordshire, deserved a taste of his own medicine.

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To you'r Posts fellow Americans and to arms fellow patriots for the enemies of freedom have acquired their blueprint of victory! This blueprint is titled. KELO, and has the specific strategy of divide and conquer.

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Govenment Theft undefined!

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This expanse of central Illinois is flat as a pancake, with corn and soybean fields stretching to the horizon, interrupted only by a smattering of small towns.

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"The fight over the Fort Saginaw Shopping Center in Buena Vista Township continues. Saginaw County Circuit Judge William A. Crane rescheduled the next hearing over the 33-acre property at East Holland and South Outer to Tuesday, Jan. 22. "

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The government is readying 102 court cases against landowners in Arizona, California and Texas for blocking efforts to select sites for a fence along the Mexican border, a Homeland Security Department official said Wednesday.

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"Planners are split on eminent domain—one group believes it's a critical component of planning since it allows them to implement plans more quickly. Others believe eminent domain does more to destroy urbanism than build it up."

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