Eminent domain: can small-business owners beat the government? | Gene Marks

Governments have the right to buy up land for the common good - but what about the business owners forced to move?

As communities expand, so do eminent domain cases - and the trend is causing big problems for small businesses.

Simply put, eminent domain is the right of a government to require the compulsory sale, or in extreme cases expropriation, of land by a property owner so public officials can put that private property to public use.