Fifteen state supreme courts have ruled on the issue of this perverse exercise of the power of eminent domain.
Some local governments have sought to stretch their eminent domain power as a means of augmenting revenue by expanding their tax base.
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Regulated utilities are granted the power of eminent domain to build and maintain their infrastructure, but in return must offer service to all residents.
They used the power of eminent domain to push freeways through the heart of urban areas, destroying some neighborhoods outright and cutting others off from the rest of the city.
Now, more than ever, the conservative establishment will cling to the great centres of power still within its domain.
They are decisions of a kind for which the judiciary has neither aptitude, facilities, nor responsibility, and have long been held to belong in the domain of political power, not subject to judicial intrusion or inquiry.
However, if we really want to transform the energy sector in a meaningful way, it will require attention to the other relatively ignored storage domain: grid scale power storage.
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For digital CEOs used to the susceptibility of problems to the power of algorithms, the analog world of politics is a domain frustratingly beyond their reach.
This has mirrored progress in fields as diverse as speech recognition and credit-card fraud detection, where modern techniques combined with a continuing explosion in computer power have made possible behaviour that seems very like human intelligence, albeit limited to a specific domain.
While brand-based and generic TLDs are fascinating in terms of their potential to shake-up domain name giants and revolutionize online branding, only a handful of them will possess staying power.
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