ELR Citation: ELR 20549
No(s). s. 83-141 et al (U.S. May 30, 1984)

The Court rules that condemnation of land for resale to private parties to abate the evils of an oligopoly of land ownership in Hawaii does not violate the Public Use Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Hawaii's history of feudal land tenure has left most of the residential land in the hands of a relativ...