More eminent domain follies: Florida

[elprincipe]

http://www.desertdispatch.com/2005/113379128754811.html

Another case rightfully described as "reverse Robin Hood": 6,000 people to be displaced in Florida to make way for a yacht club and high-rise condos. When will we wake up as a nation and demand action?

[kakomu]

I've never liked Eminent Domain. Just such a nasty and sticky realm of law.

[mykevermin]

I hope that it can and will be challenged (and that, of course, it will be successful in being reversed) in the supreme court sooner than later.

[Vampire Hunter D]

Any new developments with this story?

[alonzomourning23]

If lawmakers weren't so concerned about corporate money then I'm sure they'd have the public backing for a constitutional amendment preventing this. That's the only way to ensure it doesn't happen.

[elprincipe]

If lawmakers weren't so concerned about corporate money then I'm sure they'd have the public backing for a constitutional amendment preventing this. That's the only way to ensure it doesn't happen.

Given the 376-38 vote on this bill

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/home/13145242.htm

I would think they'd have ample support for an amendment. The sad thing really is that an amendment is necessary since the court has obviously made an outrageous reading of the Constitution in the first place and one that never would have been envisioned by its authors.

The latest on the story is that it continues to be fought over, with local residents attempting to stop it through grassroots activism.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2005/12/11/c1a_blight_1211.html

Pretty crazy that the mayor of a town of 32,000 would support displacing 6,000 residents, I would think, but I guess that's what the money machine surrounding these types of seizures can do. Scary.