Supreme Court May Hear Challenge to Eminent Domain Ruling

A New York development company is fighting a local agency’s decision to give its property to a business competitor.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 29, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider on Feb. 21 whether to hear a challenge to its controversial 20-year-old ruling upholding eminent domain powers to seize private property for private economic development.

The new case was brought by a development company whose land was expropriated by a local development agency and given to a business competitor that wanted to use the land for a parking lot. Eminent domain is the power of governments to take—or expropriate—private property for public use, provided that the owner is given just compensation.