United States:
House Judiciary Committee Approves Eminent Domain Bill
04 July 2013
Fox Rothschild LLP
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The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation by voice vote
prohibiting state and local governments that receive federal
economic development funds from using eminent domain to transfer
private property from one private owner to another for the purpose
of economic development. The "Private Property Rights
Protection Act" (H.R. 1944) is a direct, albeit delayed,
response to the 2005 Supreme Court decision in the case of Kelo v.
City of New London, which held that it was not unconstitutional to
condemn property for economic development. The Private Property
Rights Protection Act also passed the House of Representatives in
the 109th and 112th Congresses but subsequently died and was never
enacted into law.
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