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Press Conference: Property Owners Challenge Secret “Blight” Designations​

Streamed live 67 minutes ago
Ocean Springs, Mississippi residents are taking their fight for property rights to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. The city secretly labeled their homes, church property, and neighborhood as “slums” and “blighted” without notice or a chance to be heard—labels that can open the door to eminent domain abuse.
Represented by IJ, the property owners are asking the Fifth Circuit to revive their lawsuit and reaffirm a basic constitutional principle: government must give people notice and an opportunity to defend their property before branding it blighted. (Recorded earlier today)


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