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Government

May 23, 2007

Constitutional-Amendment Plan Would Limit Eminent Domain

SACRAMENTO - Local governments in California would no longer be able to use eminent domain to seize private homes and turn them over to developers under a proposal to amend the state constitution unveiled Monday at the state Capitol.

By Max Follmer and Linda Rapattoni
Daily Journal Staff Writers

      SACRAMENTO - Local governments in California would no longer be able to use eminent domain to seize private homes and turn them over to developers under a proposal to amend the state constitution unveiled Monday at the state Capitol.
      Critics immediately said the plan had enough loopholes to render it virtually meaningless. Bu...

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