The Pfizer Corporation has announced that it will close down its headquarters in New London, Connecticut. [HT: my former student Josh Blackman, and other VC readers]. As our regular readers may recall, Pfizer played a key role in instigating the notorious condemnations that led to the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the taking of private property […]
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New York’s Highest Court to Hear Important Eminent Domain Case
By Ilya Somin on October 9, 2009 3:10 pm in Blight, Eminent Domain, Kelo, Post-Kelo Reform, Property Rights
The New York Court of Appeals – the state’s highest court -is about to consider an important property rights case, Goldstein v. New York State Urban Development Corporation. The case involves a challenge to the condemnation of large amounts of property for the purpose of transferring the land to influential developer Bruce Ratner, who plans […]
Goldstein v. Pataki and the Shortcomings of Kelo:
By Ilya Somin on February 1, 2008 11:27 pm in Eminent Domain, Kelo, Post-Kelo Reform, Property Rights, Uncategorized
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently decided Goldstein v. Pataki, a case challenging the condemnation of homes and other property in Brooklyn for the purpose of transferring them to developer Bruce Ratner, owner of the New Jersey Nets. Ratner plans to use the land to build a new stadium for the […]