Category: Eminent Domain
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Pipelines and Eminent Domain: Iowa Homeowners Push Back
When the government decides its stake in a piece of property overrides the landowner’s, it has a process to take over private property. This is called eminent domain. It’s essentially the government forcing a private landowner to sell their residence or business property. Another word for it is condemnation (which sounds even worse!). Condemnation or eminent…
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Eminent domain: An eminence front?
A simple Google image search of “eminent domain” returns countless cartoon depictions of the giant arm of Uncle Sam hovering above a modest home, while a defenseless figure guards the front door, powerless to stop the inevitable seizure of his home. Absent any context as to why the situation is occurring, the reader is sympathetic,…