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| Introduction: Property for the Taking | |
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| The Almighty Judges | |
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| Eminent Domain | |
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| The Despotic Power | |
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| Redevelopment: Is It a Scam? | |
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| A Little Pink Cottage Becomes a National Symbol (New London, Connecticut) | |
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| Those Pesky Holdouts (Norwood, Ohio) | |
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| Murky Waters in Riviera Beach (Riviera Beach, Florida) | |
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| Story Snapshots | |
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| "The Donald" Trumped (Atlantic City, New Jersey) | |
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| Five Strikes and You're Out (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) | |
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| 99 Cents Is Not Enough (Lancaster, California) | |
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| Putting the Brakes on Eminent Domain Abuse (Mesa, Arizona) | |
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| The New York Times: Corporate Welfare Recipient (New York, New York) | |
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| Behind the Stadium Land Grab (Detroit, Michigan) | |
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| Not a Very Bright School District (Cumberland County, Virginia) | |
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| Zoning | |
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| Controlling Land Locally | |
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| City of Pirates (Pompano Beach, Florida) | |
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| Buzzards Circling over Buzzards Bay (Dartmouth, Massachusetts) | |
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| Highway Robbery (Rochester, Minnesota) | |
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| Story Snapshots | |
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| Pay Ransom or Else (San Francisco, California) | |
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| A Twenty-Year Property Freeze (Lake Tahoe) | |
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| It's Okay to Pray, But Not Too Often (Denver, Colorado) | |
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| Homeowners with a View, Beware (Skamania County, Washington) | |
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| Not in Their Backyard (Corona del Mar, California) | |
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| Pay Me Now, or Pay Me Later (Lee County, Florida) | |
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| Kids at Play, Keep It That Way (Clinton, Mississippi) | |
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| Wetlands | |
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| Regulating Puddles and Ponds | |
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| A Wetlands Desperado (Navarre, Florida) | |
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| Those Dam Bureaucrats! (Pierson, Michigan) | |
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| A Wetlands Nightmare (Midland, Michigan) | |
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| Story Snapshots | |
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| Dumped on over a Dump (Morrisville, Pennsylvania) | |
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| Squashing a Property Owner's Rights (Old Orchard Beach, Maine) | |
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| A Permit ... But Not Really (Coon Rapids, Minnesota) | |
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| No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (Sonoma Valley, California) | |
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| Sunk by a Mud Puddle (Long Island, New York) | |
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| Bogged Down by the EPA (Carver, Massachusetts) | |
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| A Pond for the Greater Good (Snohomish, Washington) | |
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| Endangered Species | |
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| The Endangered Species Act Gone Wild! | |
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| Held Hostage by a Fly (Colton, California) | |
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| The Cave Bugs Are Safe (Austin, Texas) | |
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| A Grizzly Lesson to Learn (Dupuyer, Montana) | |
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| Story Snapshots | |
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| The Courts Don't Give a Hoot (Linn County, Oregon) | |
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| A Different Kind of Beetlemania (Lusby, Maryland) | |
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| A Secure Border Is for the Birds (San Diego, California) | |
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| Stymied by Snails (Kanab, Utah) | |
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| The Mouse That Never Was (Chugwater, Wyoming) | |
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| Snakes in the Grass (Fishkill, New York) | |
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| The Bald Eagle: Delisted in Name Only (Sullivan Lake, Minnesota) | |
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| A Call to Action | |
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| Legislative Reform Strategies | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |