Were they not compensated at the time?
Eminent domain has been used in abusive and unjust manners against property owners. This case might make overreacting governments think twice before seizing land via eminent domain.
Too bad too late for the original family member ran off their land.
I wonder if the Democrats will give back all the land taken from the Japanese-Americans while they were in the camps?
Wait till they get the property tax bill for a $72 million piece of property....they’ll be giving it back....LOL
that I am cool with.
better not, my title abstract goes back to when the house was built in 1850 and the Seneca had already moved by then...
I wouldn’t mind getting back my share of the property the communists expropriated from my grandfather. There’s an apartment complex and cinema on what used to be his home and business. Alas. So are the ways of the world. I guess there’s some descendant of the Habsburgs who would also lay claim to it, and many more before then.
There is no denying that at one time in this country black people were treated like crap.
Use the Nazi reparations to Jews as a benchmark. If you don’t have close living relatives and documentation, no one gets anything.
This has nothing to do with race...if the government Illegitimately takes any person’s property, they should sue and obtain the same compensation.
They should pay back what they received for the land, plus interest and inflation.
“In 1912 they bought land on Manhattan Beach and opened a resort .
The resort was one of the first to welcome African Americans to the coast.
In 1924 city officials seized two dozen properties through eminent domain.
Bruces fought in court, lost, and left the area: the proposed park was never built.”
In 1912 they bought land and opened a resort. In 1924 they left and the resort was never built. ?? Wut?
FReepers trying to justify the governments position need to examine their heads.
Eminent domain has been abused by our “benevolent” governments around our nation for too long.
Stealing private property should be one of the very hardest things our government can do to people.
I am glad to hear these people will be getting compensated for this theft.
So when are thet ruling that California has be returned to Mexico? After all, racist whiteys took it from brown people.
See Kelo v City of New London.
Apparently cities can take land and then waste it.