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Supreme Court Overturns Precedent In Property Rights Case. A Sign Of Things To Come?
A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that property owners can go directly to federal court with claims that state and local regulations effectively deprive landowners of the use of their property.
The 5-to-4 decision overturned decades of precedent that barred property owners from going to federal court until their claims had been denied in state court.
Federal courts are often viewed as friendlier than state courts for such property claims. The decision, with all five of the court's conservatives in the majority, may have particular effects in cities and coastal areas that have strict regulations for development.
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Supreme Court Ruling Allows Property Owners to Go Directly to Federal Court Over Local Regulations
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @03:15AM
> Seizing land for a developer's personal gain certainly doesn't qualify.
You know that Trump did this (or tried to) to some low income housing that happened to be where he wanted to build high end stuff.
Just one of the many reasons that I've disliked Trump for many years (long before he started into politics).