Another case of eminent domain -- coming soon to your neighborhood?

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I think the Supreme Court has really opened up a can of worms.

from today's Cincy Enquirer: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060312/NEWS01/603120387

Woman vs. eminent domain
She may lose her home of 47 years
BY GREGORY KORTE | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Eighty-year-old Emma Dimasi has told friends and neighbors she wants to live the rest of her years on the corner of Clifton and Dixmyth avenues, in the small brick house she's owned since 1959. The city has given her until Saturday to get out.

In a case that could have statewide implications, a Hamilton County magistrate will decide Monday whether the city of Cincinnati has the right to take Dimasi's house for a $4 million relocation of Dixmyth Avenue.

The taking of Dimasi's house is a routine and long-accepted use of eminent domain for a city like Cincinnati, which has filed 21 such court actions for road projects since 2003. But Dimasi argues that private economic development - not public transportation - is driving the road project.

That's because Good Samaritan Hospital is contributing $1.28 million toward the project, which would give the hospital more room to grow as it continues a $122 million expansion. Under its agreement with the city, the hospital also stands to get whatever land is left over after road construction for $1....

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And from another eminent domain case in Cincinnati:
http://www.norwoodblight.com/
http://www.ij.org/private_property/norwood/index.html