Jacob Sullum

Last February, explaining why he thought President Joe Biden could not be successfully prosecuted for mishandling classified documents, Special

Last February, explaining why he thought President Joe Biden could not be successfully prosecuted for mishandling classified documents, Special Counsel Robert Hur suggested that jurors would be apt to ...

Western New Mexico University's Board of Regents approved the severance package for Joseph Shepard after a state audit highlighted $364,000 in "wasteful" and "improper" spending.

The case offers the justices chance to revisit a widely criticized decision that trampled property rights by letting government officials reassign private land to politically favored businesses.

SCOTUS Can Protect Property Owners From Eminent Domain Abuse

A Utica, New York, land grab offers the justices an opportunity to revisit a widely criticized precedent.

Bryan Bowers and his business partner Mike Licata planned to build medical office space across from a new hospital in downtown Utica, New York. The Oneida County Industrial Development Agency nixed that plan by agreeing to take the property so a competing business next door could use it for a parking lot — a land grab that a state appeals court approved last February. The US Supreme Court invited such abuses with its 2005 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London, which blessed the use of eminent domain to promote economic development by transferring property from one private owner to another. Bowers’ case offers the justices another chance to revisit

Bryan Bowers and his business partner, Mike Licata, planned to build medical office space across from a new hospital in downtown Utica, New York.

Last November, when Nebraska voters overwhelmingly approved a pair of medical marijuana initiatives, the fate of those measures was unclear because of a

Bryan Bowers and his business partner, Mike Licata, planned to build medical office space across from a new hospital in downtown Utica, New York.