Sentences with phrase «through public condemnation»

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Ultimately, the Lake in the Hills deal fell through, prompting that village and the Cary Park District to each begin condemnation proceedings to acquire the land in the public interest, with a judge to determine how much the Hoffman trust would receive.

Condemnation of land or homes happens through the process of eminent domain, in which a government can force someone to sell property for a public improvement — usually a road or power line.

«In fact, ASCLD / LAB could more properly be described as a product service organization,» Schechter wrote, «which sells for a fee a «seal of approval» covering diverse laboratory systems, which laboratories can utilize to bolster their credibility through in - court testimony by technicians, plus ancillary services such as protection from outside inquiry, shielding of internal activities and, where necessary, especially in the event of public condemnation, a spokesperson to buffer the laboratory from media inquiry.»

In a 2003 Institute for Justice report, Public Power, Private Gain, Berliner documented 10,000 instances of threatened or actual condemnation for private development nationwide from 1998 through 2002.