Reason

Two More Worthy Additions to the "Anticanon" of Constitutional Law - Berman v. Parker and Euclid v. Ambler Realty

2. Terrible real-world effects. 3. Upholding government policies that promote racial discrimination and oppression. The first two criteria apply to all anticanonical cases (though in a few instances, ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

How urban renewal schemes destroyed working-class neighborhoods

Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment in a series examining the roots of America’s housing crisis. To read the earlier pieces, visit The roots of today’s housing crisis. The Supreme Court’s ...
Reason

Second Circuit Rules that a "Passive Park" Qualifies as a Public Use Authorizing Use of Eminent Domain - Even if this Rationale is a Pretext for a Desire to Block Private ...

The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment says the government may only "take" private property for a "public use." In cases like Berman v. Parker and Kelo v. City of New London, the Supreme Court has ...
Southeast Missourian

Eminent domain is big threat

To the editor: There is little I fear more than eminent domain. In a 1954, a unanimous Supreme Court in Berman v. Parker permitted eminent domain to assist urban renewal. It allowed property to be ...