Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court went seriously astray when it broadened the meaning of public use in the Berman eminent domain case to situations involving a "public purpose" such as urban ...
It is part of the Yale Journal on Regulation Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London. Part I highlights the strikingly similar history of the two issues. In both cases, there ...
The Supreme Court's controversial 5-4 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London (2005), held that private "economic development" is enough to satisfy the Fifth Amendment requirement that the government can ...