Events

Aug 08
This Land is My Land: Eminent Domain and Protecting Property Owners from Government Takings

  August 8, 2016, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

  John Locke Foundation, 200 W. Morgan Street, Suite 200, Raleigh, North Carolina 27601

In this presentation, former News & Observer metro columnist Ruth Sheehan, now an attorney with The Francis Law Firm, discusses the firm’s landmark victory in the Hammocks Beach case, inverse condemnation, and the paltry offers being made by governments and multi-billion dollar utilities for private land in our state.

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We are North Carolina’s Most Trusted and Influential Source of Common Sense. The John Locke Foundation was created in 1990 as an independent, nonprofit think tank that would work “for truth, for freedom, and for the future of North Carolina.” The Foundation is named for John Locke (1632-1704), an English philosopher whose writings inspired Thomas Jefferson and the other Founders.

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