When I wrote my first law review article in 1969, I discovered that scholarly literature overwhelmingly excoriated the law of eminent domain as archaic, unjust, confused, and biased in favor of the government. See 6 Cal. West. L. Rev. at 58. The late Justice Roy Gustafson described the law of eminent domain as a "hopeless mess." And Edward L. Lascher, dean of California's appellate bar and a popular legal columnist, characterized eminent domain as a "maniacal backwash of American law."
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