In 1992, Pennsylvania exercised this power on the entire town of Centralia and condemned it due to the still-ongoing mine fire. For 10 points each:
[10e] The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment requires “just compensation” when the government uses what two-word power of seizing private property for public purposes?
ANSWER: eminent domain
[10h] In a controversial 5–4 decision from 2005, the Supreme Court allowed Susette Kelo’s “Little Pink House” in this Connecticut city to be taken over by Pfizer for private economic development.
ANSWER: New London [accept Kelo v. City of New London]
[10m] O’Connor’s dissent in Kelo decried “nothing is to prevent the State from replacing” these businesses with a fancier counterpart. A case over one of these businesses called “Heart of Atlanta” upheld the Civil Rights Act.
ANSWER: motels [or motor hotels; or motor inns; or motor lodges; accept Motel 6; prompt on hotels] (O’Connor wrote that “Nothing is to prevent the State from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton.”)
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