Poletown overturned
by Bob Smith
No Force, No Fraud
07/31/04
Twenty-three years ago, a disastrous Michigan Supreme Court decision started serving as a precedent that has resulted in widespread property rights abuse all across the U.S. The infamous Poletown case allowed the city of Detroit to bulldoze an entire neighborhood with more than 1,000 homes and 600 businesses in order to give the property to General Motors for an auto plant."...
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2004/07/31
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
No Force, No Fraud
07/31/04
Twenty-three years ago, a disastrous Michigan Supreme Court decision started serving as a precedent that has resulted in widespread property rights abuse all across the U.S. The infamous Poletown case allowed the city of Detroit to bulldoze an entire neighborhood with more than 1,000 homes and 600 businesses in order to give the property to General Motors for an auto plant."...
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2004/07/31
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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