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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (37176)	6/26/2005 7:27:33 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

"The power that existed was the power to take land for PUBLIC use, not to make a stadium owner richer." "Public use" has been broadly defined since at least 1916, as I've shown. Prior to that, there were the "mill laws" of the 1800s that allowed private land to be taken and turned over to the use of private mill owners (it was to be flooded in creation of their mill ponds). Contrary to all the media hype, the court has not, with this decision, expanded eminent domain powers one iota.