Hi Eric,
Would that fall under the "power of eminent domain" category?
http://www.vrgappraisals.com/
http://www.bland.org/appal/eminentdomain.html
http://www.howtofightcityhall.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21&sid=
I remember when they put in a new freeway ramp here,
and I knew someone that had to move, whether they
wanted to or not, so it could be done. Of course they
were paid.
Best Regards
At 01:42 PM 2/20/03 -0800, you wrote:
> > I'd have to disagree with that Chad;
> > A few weeks ago a US aircraft made a forced landing in Australia and
> > ended up overshooting the runway, coming to rest in some poor schmucks
> > backyard. The entire cul de sac became off limits to those people who
> > lived there because of some_thing_ on the aircraft that was top secret.
> > It was well splashed across Aussie and New Zealand news.
>
>Dunno about Australian law, but if that happened to me here in the
>U.S., I'd sue the government for violating my 4th Amendment right to
>be secure against unreasonable search and seizeure. I don't have a
>problem with them coming onto my property to reclaim their aircraft
>(though I'd fully expect to be compensated for damages), but the
>government doesn't have any constitutionally-granted power to evict
>me from my property (effectively a seizure) just because they've been
>careless and allowed top secret material to fall there.
>
>Of course, I'd probably lose the case. It's been said that "national
>security" is the root key of the U.S. Constitution. The courts have
>routinely allowed national security to trump rights guaranteed to the
>people by the constitution, despite there being no constitutional
>basis for it.
>
>On the other hand, if they were nice about it, and asked me if I would
>please agree to move into a nice hotel for a few days at their expense,
>and offered reasonable compensation for my trouble, I'd be fairly likely
>to agree to it.
Received on Thu Feb 20 2003 - 19:38:00 GMT