A new wrinkle in the eminent domain

Thursday, June 23, 2005

The Supreme Court has just ruled that local governments can take private property — and hand it over to commercial enterprises — all in the name of economic development. Sam Eaton has the story.

U.S. Supreme Court building (Mark Wilson/ Getty Images)

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