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• Talking to Former GOP Guv Candidate Josh Penry on Decision to Drop Out

  
  Mount Virtus — Authority: 533
  This morning I had the opportunity to follow up on this week’s Colorado political bombshell with the man at the center of the storm: state senate minority leader Josh Penry , of whom word leaked Monday that he had decided to withdraw from the Republican primary campaign for governor. As a personal supporter of ...
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• More Trade News

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  My colleague Dan Griswold pointed out yesterday some unfortunate editing in the Washington Post. Here are a couple of other trade-related items in the news recently: Sen. Max Baucus (D, MT and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee) has seemingly thrown his weight behind the idea of “border measures” ...
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• Government Fail and Fail

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 602
  Coyote is good at noticing the governments failures to live up to its promises. Chrysler promised electric cars, got bailout money. The electric car program is now canceled . The Kelo case was a disaster: Local government used eminent domain to seize houses for a "value added" private development. The development ...
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• A new Houston probate drama

  
  Estate of Denial — Authority: 142
  The Glassell estate trial, Houston’s latest high profile probate dispute, once more illustrates that a clearly stated will in no way guarantees avoidance of future legal conflicts.  At issue is distribution of the half-billion-dollar estate that belonged to oil pioneer and cultural philanthropist Alfred C. Glassell ...
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• Glassell estate trial provides new Houston probate drama

  
  Estate of Denial — Authority: 142
  Glassell estate trial seeks to overturn Houston oilman’s last will Lou Ann Anderson November 10, 2009 www.EstateofDenial.com The Glassell estate trial, Houston’s latest high profile probate dispute, once more illustrates that a clearly stated will in no way guarantees avoidance of future legal conflicts.  At ...
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• More on the Implications of Pfizer’s Decision to Close Down its New London Headquarters

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  Over at the Land Use Prof Blog, property scholar Matt Festa has a good discussion of the implications of Pfizer’s decision to close down its New London headquarters for the ongoing debate over the use of eminent domain to promote economic development. As I explained in this post , the construction of this Pfizer ...
  21 hours ago

• Texas’ Amendment 11: Another Post-Kelo Eminent Domain Reform that Falls Short

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  It hasn’t gotten much media attention, but last week, Texas voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 11 , an eminent domain reform measure that purports to ban “economic development” takings of the kind the Supreme Court upheld in Kelo v. City of New London . Texas badly needs stronger protection for ...
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• Sides in Glassell estate dispute square off

  
  Estate of Denial — Authority: 142
  Differing descriptions of oilman offered in estate fight Mary Flood November 4, 2009 Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6701760.html Two wildly different portraits of oilman and philanthropist Alfred C. Glassell Jr. were painted Tuesday before a jury that will decide how much of his ...
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• Can forfeiture clauses be enforced?

  
  Estate of Denial — Authority: 142
  ‘In terrorem’ clause is one way to cut heir out of will Albert E. Vacek Jr. Houston Chronicle November 6, 2009 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6708276.html Curry Glassell, the daughter of oilman and arts benefactor Alfred Glassell, is disputing his last will in a high-profile Houston court ...
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• New animal group joins battle for honoring Helmsley estate wishes

  
  Estate of Denial — Authority: 142
  More Animal Groups Join Fight for Helmsley’s Money D.E.L.T.A. Rescue joins other major animal groups to help Leona Helmsley speak from the grave and finally expose where the late baroness really wanted her staggering near $5 billion dollars to go. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...
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• Enriching and empowering the poor with their own money

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 602
  James Workman, author of Heart of Dryness , wrote this very interesting piece [free access but annoying registration] while a fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs . In the article, he explores how poor South Africans were faring under a scheme to empower and enrich them as farmers. Unlike the many ...
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• Petitioners Reply Brief In SCOTUS Beachfront Takings Case

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 467
  The property owners have filed their Reply Brief in Stop the Beachfront Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dept of Environmental Protection , No. 08-11 (cert. granted. June 15, 2009), the case about "judicial takings" and the rights of littoral owners to accretion. Oral arguments in the Supreme Court are set for ...
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• Pfizer Corporation Plans to Abandon New London Headquarters that Led to the Kelo Takings

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  The Pfizer Corporation has announced that it will close down its headquarters in New London, Connecticut . [HT: my former student Josh Blackman , and other VC readers]. As our regular readers may recall, Pfizer played a key role in instigating the notorious condemnations that led to the Supreme Court’s decision ...
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• Pfizer abandons site of infamous property rights case

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 602
  One of the worst decisions by the Supreme Court, at least in recent memory, was Kelo v. New London . This decison redefined the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment , allowing local governments to use eminent domain to take private property for private use or economic development. The City of New London used ...
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• More on California Tax-Services Model — William Voegeli Responds to Comments

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  Last week I blogged about a very interesting article in the Manhattan Institute’s  City Journal by Claremont Review of Books contributing editor William Voegeli titled “The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy Services Paradigm” (Autumn 2009).  It compared the tax-services models of California and Texas.  VC ...
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• Placing Demands on Artists

  
  The Copyright Alliance Blog — Authority: 416
  Do I have a right to obtain music by The Beatles in any format I want? That is the question that one needs to ask when deciding how to view the decision by the remaining Beatles and key rightsholders to rule out certain forms of digital distribution. L. Gordon Crovitz has a nice overview of rights in the digital ...
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• Pfizer abandons Kelo site

  
  Tertium Quids — Authority: 576
  The eminent domain case that landed before the Supreme Court and helped launch reform efforts across the nation, including Virginia, has taken a strange turn:The private homes that New London, Conn., took away from Suzette Kelo and her neighbors have been torn down. Their former site is a wasteland of fields of weeds, ...
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• Pfizer Abandons Site Condemned In Infamous Kelo v. New London Case

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 531
  In the annals of Supreme Court history, there are perhaps only a handful of cases that go down in history as more egregious than what happened in Suzette Kelo v. City of New London. In that case, the Supreme Court approved an eminent domain taking by the City of New London, Connecticut that involved taking the ...
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• Pfizer Abandons Site Condemned In Infamous Kelo v. New London Case

  
  Below The Beltway — Authority: 693
  In the annals of Supreme Court history, there are perhaps only a handful of cases that go down in history as more egregious than what happened in Suzette Kelo v. City of New London. In that case, the Supreme Court approved an eminent domain taking by the City of New London, Connecticut that involved taking the ...
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• Property rights, prior appropriation & public trust

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 602
  In the course of writing this post , Michael Hanemann and I debated the nature and importance of property rights. Michael said: "Priority in appropriative water rights is rhetoric, not a functioning legal rule; it is a convenient myth that makes small children and economists happy." He sent along a few documents ...
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