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In St. Paul, an abuse of eminent domain

Article by: Karen Haug
Updated: October 17, 2008 - 1:49 PM

The St. Paul Port Authority wants to take my company’s property by eminent domain and kick my nearly 50-year-old family run business out of St. Paul. It is using a bogus environmental claim as an excuse to give my property to some yet-to-be-determined private developer. And if the Port Authority gets away with abusing the laws, your home or business could be next.

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ruphinaOct. 17, 08 2:12 PM

Good Luck. I agree completely with your fight, and I will say that even if you are not currently in compliance with every cockamamie environmental complaint they dream up, the governments recourse should only be to make you comply. AND if they are applying this stuff only on you to harass you into giving in, and you can show that to civil court standards (i.e. they have to prove they are not making a special case of you) they should be vulnerable to a civil lawsuit against all of the individuals in Government attempting to strong arm you. Bill G.

lvpops53Oct. 17, 08 5:55 PM

This is the kind of stuff that happens when you let Republicans in office.

mightybisonOct. 18, 08 9:41 AM

You are a complete idiot. The liberal justices on the supreme court allowed this in Kelo vs City of New London. So this is what you get when you have a Dem appt justices to the supreme court.

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