Taking People’s Land: A Proposed VA Amendment
By: Jeffrey Hamilton Geiger. This was posted Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Loading ...My colleague, Andrew McRoberts, posted recently on a proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution designed purportedly to protect property rights. Purportedly, you say? Yes. I am all for property rights and embrace fully the notion that no one can take my property without paying me for it. And there’s the rub. You are entitled to just compensation. What is not clear is whether a landowner should be additionally compensated because a median on a state road in front of their house is removed for safety reasons even though it makes access more difficult. By way of a disclaimer, I have represented condemning authorities. But I also have represented landowners. In each situation my goal is to obtain that degree of compensation that is fair. Not a penny more and not a penny less. And, as taxpayers, I am sure you would agree.
Jeff, thanks for the reposting of my post on the eminent domain constitutional amendment. Hopefully, it can serve as a source for information for folks who really want to consider whether or not to appprove this constitutional amendment. Thanks again. – Andrew
Posted by: Andrew McRoberts | February 2nd, 2012 at 6:16 pm