Additional Kelo Fallout Thoughts (Updated)
Via Rand Simberg, here another angle on what the fallout from Kelo can reasonably be expected to be. In addition to my thinking about what it could do to the real estate market, there is the possibility of using this decision to take out previously safe “we just don’t like it” real estate uses…
Private gun ranges, airfields, RV tracts, hunting preserves, fishing resources, minority religious congregations, newspapers—all are now fair targets for seizure and closure “for the economic benefit of the people.
Let the games begin. The goal: don’t live in the wrong place or use your property for the wrong purpose without adequate payoff to or influence with the powers that be, and don’t get the wrong people mad at you for some reason unrelated to that which they will invent for seizing your property in retaliation.
Update:
On the other hand, analysis at SCOTUSblog of Kennedy’s concurring opinion seems to indicate that communities may not get away with running roughshod. I guess we’ll see…
Another Update:
SCOTUSblog has a metablog discussion specifically for Kelo and related issues.
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Will The Supremes And Bad Lawyering Perpetrate A Constitutional Travesty?
United States Constitution, 1788 - 2005: Promise Unkept
Bad Precedent
Additional Kelo Fallout Thoughts
Will the Money Be Followed?
Kelo and Raich: The Root of the Supreme Court Problem?
Olek V. New London Case
Kelo and "Fair" Value
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Becker and Posner on Kelo and Eminent Domain
Kelo, IOLTA and Drugs - Oh My
Sama on Kelo, Disney, and Boston's West End Tragedy
Was Kelo The Lost Battle That Won The War?
You Thought The Kelo Outcome Couldn't Be Worse?
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