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...measure limits the length of time landlords are allowed to keep units vacant for rehabilitation purposes. If adopted, it would force Harvard to quickly refurbish the long-vacant Craigie Arms apartments--or else risk losing it to the city through eminent domain...
...Bedford, Mass. (pop. 97,250), in 1983, he knew he would be in charge of schools, parks and garbage pickup, but he never thought about running a factory. Until now. Lawler announced last week that the city stood ready to make unprecedented use of its power of eminent domain to take over Morse Cutting Tools, a 120-year-old New Bedford manufacturer that employs about 450 workers. Gulf & Western Industries, the New York-based conglomerate that owns Morse Cutting Tools, has been shedding divisions and has set a tentative July 31 deadline for selling the New Bedford company. The city...
...Eminent domain, a legal right of governments that originated in the Middle Ages, has traditionally been used to take over land for public works like highways. New Bedford obtained a 45-page legal opinion that says a city can also use eminent domain to assume ownership of the buildings and equipment of a private company "for the purpose of maintaining a healthy economy." New Bedford would have to pay Gulf & Western a fair price for Morse, estimated to be $10 million to $20 million...
Young Ivan set about codifying laws, establishing schools and unifying his fractured domain. But his imperial dreams soon drowned in his own appetites. He married eight times and ordered at least one of his wives murdered. The Tsar found he enjoyed killing and torture almost as much as sex and prayer. With his sadistic elder son, also named Ivan, he would turn wild bears loose in the public square and watch them maul passersby. Suspecting that the elders of Novgorod were making overtures to Poland, father and son spent five weeks supervising the slow deaths of as many...
...upholding the land-reform law, the court cited the Fifth Amendment, which allows the Government to acquire property for "public use" after paying "just compensation." Typically, this right of eminent domain is invoked to permit the purchase of land for roads and public projects. The court affirmed that a state could exercise this right for other purposes, such as land reform, as determined by its legislature. "The people of Hawaii have attempted, much as the settlers of the original 13 colonies did, to reduce the perceived social and economic evils of a land oligopoly traceable to their monarchs," wrote Justice...