Orfield v. Housing and Redev. Auth. of St. Paul

How courts have described this case

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• finding no taking connected with economic losses in a neighborhood that were caused by urban renewal planning, but recognizing that a “de facto” taking occurs when eminent domain powers are abused and are directed against a particular parcel
• no taking where condemning authority did not legally restrain use of the property and did not act in bad faith in its dealings with the landowner
• no taking where condemning authority did not legally restrain use of the property and did not act in bad faith in its dealings with the landowner
• “It may well be that abuse of the power of eminent domain when that abuse is specifically directed against a particular parcel could constitute a de facto taking.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).