North Kansas City has lost an appeal over its attempt to condemn a Burger King in what it contends is in a blighted area. The fast-food restaurant is the only property the city doesn’t control in a 57-acre parcel slated for redevelopment.

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The state Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the St. Louis County Circuit Court awarding damages, including extra cash based on a “heritage value statute,” to property owners in an eminent domain case.

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The city of Richmond, Calif., and Mortgage Resolution Partners told a federal judge that a bondholders’ lawsuit seeking to block it from helping homeowners by seizing mortgages through eminent domain is premature.

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An appeals court has upheld the summary for two ballot initiatives that seek to limit the use of eminent domain in Missouri.

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A three-story mural protesting St. Louis’ use of eminent domain won’t be painted over any time soon. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said this morning that the city’s sign code violates the First Amendment.

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St. Charles is in the initial stages of combining two large redevelopment projects officials hope will not only help SSM St. Joseph Health Center to grow but revitalize the Fifth Street corridor from Interstate 70 to Washington Street.

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With a decision in hand that could allow him to begin gathering signatures for a proposed ballot item, anti-eminent-domain activist Ron Calzone is now going after the groups he says have used the courts against him. Calzone, of Missouri Citizens ...

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A family that thought city officials shortchanged it in taking property for development and took the case all the way to the Supreme Court has reached a nearly $2 million settlement. The C.F. White Family Partnership and the Lupton Living ...

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Author Jeff Benedict spent three years with Suzette Kelo learning about her "little pink house" and her fight to save her own home. Her battle led to one of the most talked about and controversial U.S. Supreme Court decisions about government's ability to use eminent domain. Benedict spoke Wednesday at a luncheon hosted by the Missouri Federal Institute and the Federalist Society, telling Kelo's story and what brought her to the Supreme Court.

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Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court expanded local governments' use of eminent domain in the 2005 decision Kelo v. City of New London, many states have sought to limit potential abuses. Missouri was one of them. But some residents of North St. Louis believe the reforms didn't go far enough.

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A Missouri appeals court may have made it easier to condemn private property for redevelopment. In a decision handed down last week, the Missouri Court of Appeals in Kansas City said the condemnation of property that houses Gigi’s Wigs & ...

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