Constitutional Law
Oct. 7, 2010
Why Aren't Our Journalistic Betters Defending the First Amendment?
The press' failure to report on a controversial lawsuit attacking a new book on eminent domain shows its hypocrisy on constitutional rights.
Gideon Kanner
Professor of Law Emeritus
Loyola Law School
USC Law School
The blogosphere is atwitter again on a subject involving the exercise of eminent domain. The Texas Court of Appeals is hearing oral arguments in the matter of a fellow named H. Walker Royall, a Texas developer who was the beneficiary of a deal with the city of Freeport, Texas, whereby the city would take by eminent domain waterfront property long owned by the Gore family, and turn it over to Royall for redevelopment into a private marina. So far, it's the stuff of many redevelopment cont...
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