Texas land owners have yet begun to fight - JUST LIKE I'VE BEEN SAYING.
I already schooled you on this previously. It's called eminent domain. It's part of the Fifth Amendment. Government need only pay just compensation to land owners for government appropriation of private land. The "fight" is conducted as a civil matter over the value paid in an eminent domain case, not as an injunction against the appropriation. Read the Fifth Amendment sometime.
and the old woman in NY tied up Trumps imminent domain suit for over 20 years in the courts
In 1993, Donald Trump bought several lots around his Atlantic City
casino and
hotel, intending to build a
parking lot designed for
limousines.
[4] Coking, who had lived in her house at that time for 32 years,
refused to sell. As a result, the city
condemned her house, using the power of
eminent domain. She was offered $251,000,
[5] a quarter of what she was offered by Guccione 10 years earlier.
With the assistance of the
Institute for Justice, Coking fought the local authorities and eventually prevailed.
[6] Superior Court Judge Richard Williams ruled that because there were "no limits" on what Trump could do with the property, the plan to take Coking's property did not meet the test of law. But Williams' ruling did not reject the practice of using eminent domain to take private property from one individual and transferring it to another, which would eventually be upheld by the
Supreme Court of the United States in
Kelo v. City of New London.
Two other properties that prevailed against eminent domain eventually did sell: Sabatini's restaurant received $2.1 million and a pawnshop sold for $1.6 million. Their lots became part of a large lawn flanking a taxi stand for Trump's casino.
[1][7] Coking remained in her house until 2010, when she moved to a retirement home in the San Francisco Bay Area near her daughter and grandchildren.
Property records show that on June 2, 2010, Coking transferred ownership of the house to her daughter, who put it on the market in 2011 with an initial asking price of $5 million.
[1][8] By September 2013 the price had been reduced to $1 million.
[9]
The property was finally sold for $583,000 in an auction on July 31, 2014.
[10] The buyer was
Carl Icahn, who held the debt on Trump Entertainment, owner of Trump Plaza. He subsequently demolished the house on November 19, 2014.
[11] Neither the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority nor the owners of Trump Plaza expressed any interest in the auction.
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