OPINION/COMMENTARY

The Courts Get One Right

In July of this year, the Michigan Supreme Court struck an unexpected blow for freedom; a decision, which hopefully will restore a little sanity to the raging nationwide debate over private property rights.

For more than two decades now, cities and counties across America have been using their constitutional right of imminent domain to forcibly take private property from its rightful owners, then turn around and sell that same property to other private owners under the pretense that doing so is a “public use”. Over the past couple of decades, this travesty has occurred tens of thousands of times....