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2017-06-24 -Land of the Free

Supreme Court Limits Rights Of Property Owners

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-24 06:16|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 If you think it's your land, cabin, house or farm, just stop paying taxes on it for a year or so and see whose property it really is.

"Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business – you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
~ Soetoro

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-24 06:23|| 2017-06-24 06:23|| Front Page Top

#2 It's still a taking. The plaintiffs didn't want to change the purpose or use of the land as homestead. They wanted to subdivide it for the same intended use. Did the state demonstrate an overriding rationale why this was forbidden? They just said it was in its power to do so.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-06-24 07:54|| 2017-06-24 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Grandfathered property covenants can change.
Wherein a property lot size can be honored from past definition, a change in covenant governing lot sizes can be applied should the state of the property be changed, as if in registration for a potential sale.

They're lucky the state didn't condemn and seize the unimproved parcel.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-06-24 08:37|| 2017-06-24 08:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Justice Gorsuch did not participate in the decision although it would not have made any difference, it probably would have been 5-4. There are rumors that Kennedy is going to retire soon which would hopefully return SCOTUS to a Constitutional court.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-24 12:03|| 2017-06-24 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Justice Kennedy's final "F*$k You!" to America.

Posted by Iblis 2017-06-24 15:29|| 2017-06-24 15:29|| Front Page Top

#6 This should go down in history with Kelo vs New London as one of the great errors of the Supreme Court.

Along with Roe v Wade, of course.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-06-24 18:11|| 2017-06-24 18:11|| Front Page Top

#7 ..Dred Scott, Slaughterhouse, Plessy...

A long and undistinguished record of less than perfect.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-06-24 23:12|| 2017-06-24 23:12|| Front Page Top

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