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Jeg skrev i for\u00e5ret om den vigtige Kelo-sag fra 2005<\/a>, hvor den amerikanske h\u00f8jestret afgjorde, at det if\u00f8lge forfatningen var tilladt for delstater og bystyrer at ekspropriere private borgeres hjem for at give grunden til andre private – alene med den begrundelse, at eksproprieringen ville give flere skatteindt\u00e6ger. Det var en temmelig bred definition af forfatningens ord om at ekspropriering kan finde sted af hensyn til “almenvellet”, og der blev med god grund advaret om magtmisbrug.<\/p>\n Sagen drejede sig om sygeplejersken Susette Kelo, der sammen med andre borgere sags\u00f8gte bystyret i New London, Connecticut, for at ekspropriere deres jord og hjem (hendes ber\u00f8mte lyser\u00f8de hus ses ovenfor) for at give grundene til medicinalgiganten Pfizer. De tabte sagen, men vandt s\u00e5 at sige krigen, da de kom p\u00e5 det politiske landkort og fik mange stater til at \u00e6ndre deres lovgivning.<\/p>\n Nu har de ogs\u00e5 i bagklogskabens lys f\u00e5et ret: Gaven til Pfizer var en meget kortsigtet gevinst for byen, for nu flytter medicinalgiganten igen, og bystyret st\u00e5r tilbage med h\u00e5ret i postkassen. Mange af grundene er der stadig ikke bygget p\u00e5, en stor del af byen er simpelthen en tilgroet byggetomt. Nu kommer bystyret ogs\u00e5 til at st\u00e5 tilbage med et stort industrikompleks, de n\u00e6ppe kan f\u00e5 afsat forel\u00f8big.<\/p>\n New York Times beretter om sagen<\/a>:<\/p>\n In a 5-to-4 decision, the high court ruled that it was permissible to take private property and turn it over to developers as part of a plan to bolster the local economy. Conservative justices, including Clarence Thomas, dissented. Justice Thomas called New London\u2019s plan \u201ca costly urban-renewal project whose stated purpose is a vague promise of new jobs and increased tax revenue, but which is also suspiciously agreeable to the Pfizer Corporation.\u201d<\/p>\n The decision was widely criticized, and spurred lawmakers across the country to adopt statutes to prevent similar uses of eminent domain. Scott G. Bullock, senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, a libertarian group in Arlington, Va., said that 43 states had moved to protect private-property rights since the Kelo decision. New York and New Jersey are among the seven that have not, he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Bullock, who represented the landowners in New London, said Pfizer\u2019s announcement \u201creally shows the folly of these plans that use massive corporate welfare and abuse eminent domain for private development.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey oftentimes fail to live up to expectations,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeg skrev i for\u00e5ret om den vigtige Kelo-sag fra 2005, hvor den amerikanske h\u00f8jestret afgjorde, at det if\u00f8lge forfatningen var tilladt for delstater og bystyrer at ekspropriere private borgeres hjem for at give grunden til andre private – alene med den begrundelse, at eksproprieringen ville give flere skatteindt\u00e6ger. Det var en temmelig bred definition af … L\u00e6s mere Ekspropriering: Gensyn med Kelo-sagen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[102,180,208,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}