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October 05, 2005
“Nothing is to prevent the State from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory.”
Justice O’Connor might have added: “Or any poor neighborhood with a yachting complex”:
- Officials of a poor, predominantly black Florida town plan to relocate about 6,000 residents to make room for a billion-dollar yachting and housing complex.
The coastal community of Rivera Beach in Palm Beach County may use eminent domain, if necessary, to claim 400 acres of land for the project, The Washington Times reported Monday.
O’Connor’s dissenting opinion in the Kelo case here.
Posted by tedb at October 5, 2005 12:12 PM
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