This probably bothers me more than anything I've seen out of the High Court in years. The Supreme Court has basically ruled that if Wal-Mart wants your land and can't buy you out, they can get the city/state to TAKE your land from you and sell it to Wal-Mart for their own use. That is OUTRAGEOUS!
A divided Supreme Court rules that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses against their will for economic development. The 5-4 decision was a defeat for Connecticut residents whose homes were due to be demolished to make way for an office complex.
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I saw a similar article about the same subject but I saw no mention of Walmart in either article. Are you just picking any store or do you have information that it is Walmart?
Note: I did not listen to the show so i did not hear if Walmart was specificly mentioned.
Madcap
sorry for any confusion. Wal-Mart is NOT the company doing this (here in this case). my mentioning 'Wal-Mart' was simply to pick, at random, a corporation for my hypothetical. That being said, Wal-Mart has been successful in some instances when it came to twisting zoning law, and in other instances, it was remarkably UN-successful in some high profile cases.
Personally, i try not to shop at Wal-Mart if i can help it. that usually means i'll go there if it is after hours.
here is a GREAT article about it by my favorite columnist, Dahlia Lithwick:
http://www.slate.com/id/2121410/entry/2121470/
and here's the case itself if you wanna see it in particular:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/23jun20051201/www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/04pdf/04-108.pdf
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