Eminent domain

Court agreed with the result in the lower courts. The Supreme Court held that economic development can constitute “public use” within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause to justify a local government’s exercise of its power of eminent domain to take private property. The Court reasoned that the plan “unquestionably serves a public purpose,” even though this result would also benefit private parties. In other words, since the benefit to the local economy and community can be…

this federal agency contained engineers and scientists who could optimize the construction and development of different plants necessary to the development of the project. The agency was allowed to use “eminent domain” in order to obtain the amount of land crucial to the venture. Eminent Domain forced thousands of people living in the areas in which the plants were supposed to be built out of their homes and into other prescribed areas. Nearly twenty different sites were used to build various…

those normally in congress because government legislation affects their daily lives drastically. In response, many people along the border view themselves as "very right-wing Democrat" (Adams 20). Many residents also fear the government’s power of eminent domain on their lands. Politicians must take extreme caution not to anger any of these different groups if they…

though that is not saying much. He rarely attacked or insulted people (though he did get mad at the audience, claiming they were planted to boo him), refused to draw red lines, and even made some good points, such as drawing attention to the use of eminent domain in the Keystone XL pipeline (though, he lost that exchange in the conventional…

Many groups fear that the Pipeline would cause the United States to increase its dependence on foreign oil. In addition to the numerous environmental concerns, such as oil spills and water contamination, there is concern about the “current eminent domain laws and federal and state regulations will manage the pipeline’s construction.” In January of 2014, the United States Department of the State issued an executive summary of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Within the summary, the State Department…

II. Create a list of questions for our client; Before I began a Due Diligence attack plan, I want to know background information about our client, the Purchaser. Some questions would be: is Purchaser a larger company with a parent company or if this a one time commercial transaction, what is background of the Agreement, was this Agreement a long drawn out agreement or relatively easily agreed upon with the Seller, and what is the Purchaser’s tolerance for risk. Further, how did Purchaser find…

In Thomas King’s novel The Inconvenient Indian displays ideas of assimilation and the Aboriginals non-compliance in adapting into an orthodox North American community. North Americans believe that Aboriginals are unruly; integration - or, tolerance of Aboriginals - into western culture can only occur once they adopt Christianity and lose their Aboriginal culture. Governments and other groups throughout history are pursuing a cultural genocide against the Aboriginal peoples in an attempt to…

Later the Hellenes attacked the port of Tire and stole Europa, the lord's little girl. The wars really began, then again, when Croesus, whose eminent court was gone to by Solon, sought to develop his domain by overcoming a portion of the Ionian urban communities of Asia Minor. When he counseled the prophets, he was induced at Delphi to assemble his associates for an assault on the terrain. The intrusion brought about a stalemate…

Then there’s the whole other race factor: Is concern over “income levels” and “demographic change” just gloss for an underlying assumption—that neighborhoods go south when white people move out and black people move in. If that isn’t enough to roil the revitalization waters, this emerging shift in neighborhood policy rings all kinds of alarm bells about gentrification and social engineering. Baltimore has avoided such prickly issues for the last decade with a community development approach…

Whether one realizes it or not, the interpretation of the Constitution is a vital part of everyday life. Edwin Meese put forth one way: originalism, which calls the courts and judges to interpret the Constitution according to what the founders intended. Contrastly, William Brennan believed the document should be constantly evolving and adapting to the situations brought up in legal disputes today. While both men offered insightful arguments, Meese presents a case with which I agree. Kelo v. New…