Springfield and the Courts, a Love Story
The Springfield News-Leader ran an op-ed about our recently published study of the "Missouri Plan" for judicial selection. The piece...
Eminent Domain Decision Makes Economic Sense
Dave reported that the Missouri Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of property owners regarding the misuse of eminent domain....
A Silver Lining!
Yesterday the Missouri Supreme Court issued an opinion that offers a glimmer of hope for the thousands of property owners...
Regulation and Security
The points that Justin has made about how zoning laws create a certain security for property owners and their mortgage...
Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid!
As David Stokes and I have previously discussed, I do, of course, agree that legislation should be the result of...
Former Site for Centene Plaza Sells After All
Our former editor, Tim Lee, recently pointed me to this article that ran a couple weeks ago in the St....
Court’s Eminent Domain Ruling Endangers Property Rights
For decades, the property rights of Missouri residents have been disregarded as municipalities throughout the state plowed through personal history...
Missouri’s Kelo
The nation was stunned in 2005 when the United States Supreme Court ruled that the United States Constitution allowed the...
Fighting Blight Wherever We Find It
The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that even noncharter cities can use eminent domain to confiscate people’s homes and businesses...
A Hit Against Your Property Rights
The Missouri Supreme Court handed down a 6-1 decision yesterday in favor of "development" trumping property rights in the matter...
Bit by Bit
The Post-Dispatch ran an article this morning about a pair of bills recently introduced in the General Assembly that would...
Eminent Domain at the All-Star Game
A front-page story in this morning’s Post-Dispatch details the delays that have plagued the Ballpark Village development in downtown St....
Eminent Domain Case Reaches Missouri Supreme Court
This morning, the Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments in City of Arnold v. Tourkakis, an eminent domain case that’s...
Will the Missouri Supreme Court Leave Your Home At Risk?
When Homer Tourkakis set up his dentistry practice 20 years ago in Arnold, Mo., he never dreamed that the city...
Missouri Supreme Court to Decide Whether Cities May Continue to Abuse Eminent Domain
During the five years between December 2002 and November 2007, dozens of cities acting without a constitutional charter used...
Some Things Surprise Me; Some Things Don’t
Just in case you didn’t know, Missouri is among the worst states in the country when it comes to eminent...
Progress We Can All Support
The Show Me Progress blog had an excellent post yesterday about Arnold dentist Homer Tourkakis and his ongoing fight to...
Lawyers Continue Rolling in Taxpayer Dollars
You can’t really give away something that doesn’t belong to you — especially if the "recipient" is its rightful owner!...
Does This Really Surprise Anyone?
The school districts acting as the plaintiffs in CEE v. Missouri, which have thus far used more than $3 million...
Empowering Parents to Seek Out Adequate Education
As was widely expected, last week a circuit court judge denied several school districts’ claims of constitutional entitlement to...
