Constitutional Law
Nov. 10, 2009
Trashing the Constitution in Wisconsin
Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School says a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision shows why eminent domain practices are 'kleptocratic.'
By Gideon Kanner
A while back, the Wall Street Journal characterized prevailing eminent domain practices as "kleptocratic." I am hard put to come up with a better example of the merit of that pungent characterization than the outrageous case of City of Milwaukee Post No. 2874 VFW v. Redevelopment Authority, 768 N.W.2d 749 (Wis. 2009). There, the majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court penned a fulsome exposition of what, according to the U.S. Suprem...
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