Are you freaking kidding me now?
The supreme court, if I'm reading this correctly, just voted 5-4 to allow the city of new london to seize private property in order to build a mall. Economic devleopment (at any cost) is now a public benefit. Just FYI, in case you wanted to build a mall, but there were a bunch of middle class people in your way.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=04-108
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=04-108
posted by Mom and Dad at 12:27 PM
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Wow! It's not just economic development either, since I could see how the general status of the economy could be considered 'public use'. But this is a single mall in a single town, so it's not so much 'development' as business interests. And the SC opinion states that the plan to build the mall 'was not adopted "to benefit a particular class of identifiable individuals'." What? You mean the developers building the mall and the corporations putting in their franchises are not identifiable? I'm sure there's a LIST of them sitting around somewhere, so it boggles my mind how the Supreme Court can't identify them.
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