The Institute for Justice highlights a case that’s heartbreaking — how developers and government collude in the wrongful use of eminent domain, to the harm of at-risk children.
Here’s what’s at stake:
A San Diego-area boxing gym that serves at-risk kids is showing what it takes to fight for what is right and to win. The Community Youth Athletic Center (CYAC) has had to endure a series of low blows by National City’s local government in a case that time and again demonstrated how difficult it is for California property owners to defend themselves against tax-hungry governments and land-hungry developers bent on eminent domain for private gain.
Fortunately, the Institute for Justice has taken up the case on behalf of these children. For a backgrounder on the case, see Knocking Out Eminent Domain Abuse: Youth Gym Files Suit Against National City, Calif.