A property owner who is left with a substantially diminished parcel of unencumbered property has a right to contest a condemnation that does not acknowledge an uneconomic remnant.

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Dennis Begalke owns two rental properties along First Avenue that border the site county officials have designated for a new jail. Begalke owns just enough land there to allow him to file a protest petition objecting to the project

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The city is not trying to deliberately shortchange the landlords, said Alderman Tim Bruer, who represents the Burr Oaks neighborhood and is a CDA member.

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The majority opinion was scathing in its appraisal of how the “scheme was hatched,” using terms like “sophistry” and “idiocy” in describing how the state went about declaring the neighborhood blighted, the main prerequisite for eminent domain.

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WASHINGTON — If you are the owner of beachfront property and the state comes along and widens the beach, do you own the new land or does the state?

“You could have televised spring-break parties in front of somebody’s house,” said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., arguing that property values were not the only thing at stake in a case the Supreme Court heard Wednesday.In an argument studded with references to spring break, amusement parks and hot dog vendors, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled with that issue.

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[HT: Attorney Tristan Pettit]

New York's highest court ruled that it is lawful for the state to seize private land for use by private developers

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The very idea of one’s property being seized is anathema to the American psyche and is not taken lightly by either the government or the citizen(s) involved in a possible seizure. In this exclusive interview,

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New York’s highest court is set to hear arguments Wednesday in a case that will decide whether the state government can lawfully seize private property for a development company.

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In Goldstein v. New York State Urban Development Corporation, residents and business owners are challenging the state’s use of eminent domain to condemn private property in a Brooklyn neighborhood for the benefit of a private developer.

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