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Kelo Property Rights Rulings Shouldn't Worry Tennesseans


by James L. Murphy View Biography
Brooks R. Smith View Biography
Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, PLC View Firm Credentials
Nashville Office

August 19, 2006

Previously published by Nashville Business Journal on July 29, 2005

Last November, we noted in this publication the importance of an eminent domain case pending before the United States Supreme Court. On June 23, the Supreme Court decided Kelo v. New London, holding that the taking of private property to promote economic development in New London, Conn., was a "public use" permitted by the Fifth Amendment.


 

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