Eminent Domain is a hot button and is bound to get hotter. Many cities in the LA Metro area are undergoing a rebirth via use of eminent domain by their redevelopment agencies. This video gives a good start to the discussion. "Eminent Domain is Like Cancer" is the best quote on the topic I have heard in a while.

I like the video and shared with a friend who worked as a paralegal for So Cal Ed for many years. Her take on it, "Of course Anaheim found a way to not use Eminent Domain, they had too. They lost too many cases trying to use it 20 years ago". Hmmm so all is not good over at the town of Rat after all.

Eminent domain started initially to prevent ones property from being taken without compensation for public use. Intended to provide a mechanism to protect property owners from seizure of their land by a governmental agency, it still allowed some uses like roads, schools or bridges to be built and pay a private property owner a fair use for their property. The problem is that over the last 50 years the courts have consistently held that greater tax revenue is enough to allow eminent domain to be used to take ones home and put up a mall or other business that would generate greater tax revenue for the city.

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