Property Rights Not For Sale in Ohio
July 26th, 2006 by Paul BurksToday, in the first state supreme court decisions since the US Supreme Court’s reviled Kelo decision, Ohio’s supreme court rejected the city of Norwood’s bid to use eminent domain to confiscate properties in a “deteriorating†neighborhood and give them to private developers. The court unanimously ruled that the economic development rationale which the U.S. Supreme Court used to justify Kelo violated Ohio’s constitution. Read more about the case here, or read the opinion.
July 26th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
[...] UPDATE 5: More blog coverage and commentary can be found at Volokh (Ilya Somin); The SOB Alliance (Steve Kelso, who also cross-posted at Right Angle); NixGuy (who is correct — Ohio just said “NO” to the Kelo decision); Greater Cincinnati Libertarian Blog; The Wizard at Width of a Circle; City of Tiny Lights; The Dean of Cincinnati at Cincinnati Beacon, with some very good detective work on the power players who attempted to orchestrate the taking; Freedom Works; Vox Bibliothecae; It Shines for All, the New York Sun’s blog; Atlanta’s News; Below the Beltway, who has been following the case for some time; Kim at Wizbang; Dave Roland; and Crescat Sententia, who fittingly says, “There is independent life in the Ohio Constitution!” [...]