How eminent domain ran amok

Policy Review

Volumn , Issue 133, 2005, Pages 3-24

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References (18)

1. Samuel R. Staley and John P. Blair, "Eminent Domain, Private Property, and Redevelopment: An Economic Development Analysis," Policy Study 331 (Reason Foundation, February 2.005).
2. Henry J. Munneke, "Eminent Domain: Lessons From the Past," Office of Real Estate Research Letter, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 1991). Available at www.business.uiuc.edu/orer-v 5-2-1-pdf.
3. Ryerson v. Brown, 35 Mich. 333, 338 (1877).
4. Cherokee Nation v. Southern Kansas Railway Co., 135 U.S. 641, 656 (1890).
5. Kohl v. United States, 91 U.S. 367, 371 (1875).
6. "[L]and was the bait to attract farmers into the colonies; it was used also to attract artisans and investors, develop industry, and settle frontier defenders. Tracts of public land were set aside for the support of schools, churches, and colonial governments. Land was given ... as reward [to public servants and others]." Edward T. Price, Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of Our Private Property Mosaic (University of Chicago Press, 1995), 3.
7. Francis S. Philbrick, The Rise and Fall of the West 1754-1830 (Harper & Row, 1965), 91.
8. Marian Clawson, America's Land and Its Uses (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972), 18.
9. Homer Caret Hockett, The Political and Social Growth of the American People, 1492. to 1865 (Macmillan, 3rd Edition, 1940), 571.
10. Berman v. Parker, 348 U.S. 26, 31 (1954).
11. According to Jacobs, between 1949 and 1963, 60 percent of all families displaced by urban renewal condemnations were nonwhite, and of the 5,012 persons displaced in the Berman taking, 97.5 percent were black. See the Jacobs brief submitted in Kelo. See also the NAACP brief submitted in Kelo.
12. Wilbur C. Rich, Coleman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker (Wayne State University Press, 1989), 72.
13. Rich, 182.
14. David Fasenfast, "Community Politics and Urban Redevelopment: Poletown, Detroit, and General Motors," Urban Affairs Quarterly, 22:1 (September 1986).
15. Spoletown Neighborhood Council v. Detroit, 410 Mich. 616, 655 (1981).
16. County of Wayne v. Hathcock, 471 Mich. 445 (2004).
17. Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (1984).
18. Kathleen M. Sullivan, "The Justices of Rules and Standards," Harvard Law Review 106 (November, 1992).