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"Under the banner of economic development, all private property is now vulnerable to being taken and transferred to another private owner...Nothing is to prevent the State from replacing and Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory...The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result."

        -Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, dissenting in the Supreme Court case Kelo v. New London