re: Ascension Parish plans to clear residents from 17,000-acre area for industrial development

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It leaves plants cleaner than before.

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Ehh. Outfall leaves with a higher TDS, and also has higher N and P compounds that end up in the Gulf.

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They will pay far over market value for this property and the owners will be able to buy 3 acres of un-fricked land elsewhere for what they'll get for 1 acre out of this deal.

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As someone whose family has had land seized as part of eminent domain, the government never pays you for what the land is really worth.

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Most states responded by clamping down, via state amendments, on what defines "public use". Louisiana did so through passing 2006's Amendment 5, which banned eminent domain for private economic development, tightened blight definitions, and ensured full compensation, along with Act 859, which added statutory protections like repurchase rights.

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I kinda remember this. The use of ED for private use is bullshite and ripe for corruption.

I understand that the town/county/state won't see the potential economic benefit that could be realized with a certain piece of land. But that is the price you pay for having strong property rights and living in the United States of America. Completely worth it.

That’s BS. Stealing someone’s land, the should go to hell.

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But I wouldn’t be happy about the industry and pollution.

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Lord

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wish somebody would decide they wanted to plop some industrial shite on top of where my house is. This will be the biggest windfall most of those people could ever dream of getting and they will still bitch up an unbelievable shitstorm of commotion over it.

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I know a catfish farmer in Alabama where they were going to build a 4 lane highway and were offering top dollar to anyone who lived in the way. They went around his house and farm and built it in front of his property and he was mad as hell he wanted them to go through his farm so he could get paid and shut that headache down and retire

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With grain prices so low it will likely be a blessing to the farmers

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100% sugar cane there, no grain. From the list on the website its almost all 150 acres and larger owners, many as LLCs

…Aren’t there 2-3 huge houses along the river there owned by members of one family?

Or used to?

If you look on map. Look up Modeste

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For a long time, I said Wickard was the most obscene currently controlling SCOTUS decision, then Kelo came along.

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The day Josh became a strict constructionist fired up about the difference between "public use" and "public purpose.".

I think the logic in Wikard is correct, just taken to the Nth degree. It does show how wartime can give dangerous court rulings and how Korematsu came out of the same court. A case that has hung around long enough without being directly overturned that it had to be rebuked by Roberts in Trump v Hawaii just a handful of years ago.


For me the worst is still without a doubt Citizens United. The tsunamis and ripples from that will play out for decades. I think it is the controlling caselaw that would give the framers the most heartburn.