The U.S. Supreme Court bizarrely ruled in 2005, in the Kelo case, that a government could take privately owned property from one owner to give it to another, just, well, just because.
That original ruling came down to dollars and cents, when the city of New London, New York, used eminent domain to confiscate a home belonging to Susan Kelo to give it to Pfizer for one of its business operations.
She sued, but the Supreme Court said a procedure to use eminent domain “to transfer land from private owner to another private owner” did not violate the Constitution.
Actually, the authority vested in eminent domain would be for purposes of taking property to build a highway, or some similar public benefit.
That New London scheme actually failed, as the company was unable to obtain financing for its plans, and the site remained an undeveloped empty lot. […]
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