Comments on: Eminent Domain Update and EPA Database Searches Via the Law Librarian http://www.kemplog.com/2006/03/19/eminent-domain-update-and-epa-database-searches-via-the-law-librarian/ Life and law in Eastern Indiana Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:16:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Eddy http://www.kemplog.com/2006/03/19/eminent-domain-update-and-epa-database-searches-via-the-law-librarian/#comment-324 Eddy Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:03:14 +0000 http://www.kemplog.com/2006/03/19/eminent-domain-update-and-epa-database-searches-via-the-law-librarian/#comment-324 Eminent Domain has far surpassed its original intent. No longer is private property just seized for road construction and public utilities. Local governments have lately been condemning private citizens from their property just for tax purposes and political or economic gain. Legal cases are springing up all over the nation in which local governments are taking property away from one private party and giving it to another private or corporate party. In one recent case , a township in Ohio is trying to remove one of its residents through the use of eminent domain. The city wants to level houses in the area to make way for new condominiums, which will bring in more taxes. One retired couple is putting up a legal fight against the township and the matter will go before the courts. Lately however, the justice system has been in favor of eminent domain and its use to take property from one citizen, and give it to another. Most home owners would look at these acts as injustices against private property and individual rights protected by the constitution. Is there such a thing as private property in the US or does the government really own everything like in a communist society? Do you own your property or does the government? These are two questions that point straight at the heart of the eminent domain abuse issue. for anti-eminent domain abuse t-shirts go to www.thinkertees.com Eminent Domain has far surpassed its original intent. No longer is private property just seized for road construction and public utilities. Local governments have lately been condemning private citizens from their property just for tax purposes and political or economic gain. Legal cases are springing up all over the nation in which local governments are taking property away from one private party and giving it to another private or corporate party. In one recent case , a township in Ohio is trying to remove one of its residents through the use of eminent domain. The city wants to level houses in the area to make way for new condominiums, which will bring in more taxes. One retired couple is putting up a legal fight against the township and the matter will go before the courts.

Lately however, the justice system has been in favor of eminent domain and its use to take property from one citizen, and give it to another. Most home owners would look at these acts as injustices against private property and individual rights protected by the constitution. Is there such a thing as private property in the US or does the government really own everything like in a communist society? Do you own your property or does the government? These are two questions that point straight at the heart of the eminent domain abuse issue.

for anti-eminent domain abuse t-shirts go to
http://www.thinkertees.com

]]> By: Joe Hodnicki http://www.kemplog.com/2006/03/19/eminent-domain-update-and-epa-database-searches-via-the-law-librarian/#comment-204 Joe Hodnicki Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:21:22 +0000 http://www.kemplog.com/2006/03/19/eminent-domain-update-and-epa-database-searches-via-the-law-librarian/#comment-204 Thanks for the kinds words. -- Joe Hodnicki, editor of Law Librarian Blog and co-founder of the Law Professor Blogs Network. Thanks for the kinds words. — Joe Hodnicki, editor of Law Librarian Blog and co-founder of the Law Professor Blogs Network.

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