Twenty five years ago this March 4th, Poletown Michigan made CBS national news as the Michigan Supreme Court agreed to consider whether or not Detroit could demolish a vibrant multi-cultural ...

The factory stands on land seized in a taking that forcibly displaced over 4000 people, and attracted widespread widespread opposition. The lessons and legacy of the Poletown case remain relevant ...

General Motor’s announcement that it’s cutting thousands of jobs and closing several plants has met intense criticism because the company was the beneficiary of a $50 billion government bailout in ...

DETROIT – It has been almost a generation since the Poletown neighborhood here was demolished to make room for a General Motors Cadillac plant, and in the sprawling factory’s vast parking lots and ...

Terrific news from Michigan: The state Supreme Court has reversed the infamous Poletown decision of 1981. In that case, the court allowed the City of Detroit to seize an entire neighborhood so GM ...

In his July 25 review of Ilya Somin’s book “The Grasping Hand,” Edward Glaeser cites two cases as emblematic of eminent domain’s evils: New London’s Kelo v. City of New London and Poletown ...

A serious struggle is quietly playing out over tax revenues from the General Motors’ Poletown plant, pitting the city of Detroit against the tiny city-within-a-city of Hamtramck. Detroit, which ...

General Motors ignited a firestorm of criticism when it recently announced it would shut down its massive Detroit-Hamtramck factory — along with other plants in Ohio, Maryland and Michigan — and lay ...