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States Rush to Counter Court's Ruling on Eminent Domain |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / EYE ON THE HIGH COURT |
| Author: Joyce Howard Price |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 2,535 Words, 16,497 Characters |
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Jim Seelbach, 83, lives in a suburb of St. Louis and he is about to lose his home of 20 years. The city wants it to make way for a shopping center. Seelbach and several dozen neighbors in the city of Sunset Hills face an eminent-domain order that could seize their properties to develop the $160 million complex filled with stores and offices.
Even if he were amenable to moving, he says the money offered for his home would make it impossible to find similar housing.
Seelbach has refused to accept the $118,000 offered for his two-bedroom, one-bath frame dwelling in the Sunset Manor subdivision near St. Louis. "I can't find another home for $118,000, and at 83, there's no way I can even obtain a mortgage," he says.
Likewise, his neighbor, John N. Hogan, 79, a Korean War veteran who ha...
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...oubt many states will pass legislation restricting eminent domain. "I recognize lobbyists for local governments and developers will be very active," promoting condemnation of private property for economic development.
"But public opposition to using eminent domain for private development is so overwhelming that lawmakers will have to do something."
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