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The city of New York is using eminent domain to seize a family-owned dry-cleaning business and offering the owners only about 30 percent of the value. “The city has offered my family about 30 cents on the dollar on the ...

An entire working class neighborhood could be removed by eminent domain and replaced with a $200 million high-end outlet mall if city officials in West Haven, Connecticut, get their way. Family homes and small businesses would be among the structures ...

Property owners are still waiting for payment for land seized through eminent domain while a county government is paying a private attorney $810,000 for litigation that is ongoing in Minnesota. To make matters worse, the attorney’s fee is now 375 ...

Opponents of eminent domain won an important victory this week when the US Supreme Court ruled against a city that had ordered removal of an anti-eminent domain sign. The justices did this by vacating a US Fourth Circuit Court of ...

Farms and property owners in Georgia have won a big victory in the battle against eminent domain. The state’s Department of Transportation Commissioner rejected an application that would have given energy company Kinder Morgan the right to seize private property ...

There is no version of eminent domain that coincides with liberty. On the contrary, the two ideas are antithetical to each other. As a champion of liberty, John Locke stated in his Second Treatise of Civil Government, “For I have ...

Ten years after the Supreme Court opened the door for government seizure of your home, cities and counties across the country are getting bolder. In fact, in one small Indiana town, the mayor even proposed seizing an entire neighborhood – ...

In an unprecedented move, Utah is preparing to seize 31.2 million acres of federal land located within its borders before the end of 2014. In 2012, Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed the Transfer of Public Lands Act into law, demanding ...

An Indiana city is planning to use eminent domain to bulldoze a 74-year-old neighborhood to make way for a real estate development. The city of Charlestown wants to demolish 354 homes for new residential development, and it would pay for ...

Eminent domain refers to the power of the federal and state governments to appropriate private property for public use. When property is taken, the government must pay the private property owner “just compensation,” which is generally fair market value for ...