Court Won't Hear Eminent Domain Case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider a property rights case involving a redevelopment project in New York state where businessmen are fighting local government efforts to take their land.
I never like to compare myself to bad examples, but I did find this an interesting parallel between what was happening in Yerevan and what's going on in the US. Eminent domain is being used to take land for private businessmen to develop and prosper. In the US, the problem is that the property owners rights are being violated. In Armenia, the property owners actually have known about the plan to redevelop their area for a good 70 years, so their main problem is that the compensation they are offered is laughably tiny. The full story is here.
posted by Raffi K. at 7:17 AM
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Back prior to the construction of the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles the owner of the vacant property waged a full on legal battle over developers taking her property away due to eminent domain. The case went all the way up to the Supreme Court who sided with the developers however issued her more money. Some community leaders who didn’t like what happened ended up issuing some sort of letter of intent or petition type thing that stated their desire to turn the homes of some of the Supreme Court Justices into Eminent Domain. I’m sure it didn’t go over very well but it got a point across.
There is now a similar fear in people, a large handful of who are Armenian, that followed a trend and bought property in the Palmdale/Lancaster area of Los Angeles many years ago in hopes that in the future it would be worth something. Now, they fear that the land will be taken away from them and they will be poorly compensated for land that is currently worth less than what it was bought for. The law that passed in 2005 which is briefly cited in the articles diminishes the leverage of property owners and is totally unconstitutional if you ask me.
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