This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Saturday, April 21st, 2018.

I'm Keelab Brown.

When Susette Kilo's home was stolen by her local government to benefit a large corporation,

she helped launch a national effort to seriously examine the circumstances

under which the government may seize private property.

Now the story of the Kilo case is hitting the big screen in Little Pink House.

This week I spoke with Scott Bullock, who argued the Kilo case before the Supreme Court,

and Courtney Balaker, the director of Little Pink House, now in limited

release across the United States.

Scott, how are you introduced to this case?

You were an attorney at the Institute for Justice and you presume this is one of IJ's pillars, private property.

How were you introduced to it?

Well, we started doing more and more of these cases.

It was at that time, primarily myself and my colleague,

Dana Berliner, started doing these cases.

It's starting in the mid-90s.

Our first one, of course course was an Atlantic City against

none other than our current president who was trying to get the local government

there the state agency to take property away from an elderly widow for Trump

Casino at the time.

And that really touched off, we won that case, and it touched off a whole series of cases that we did and once we won that

case we were inundated with requests and we realized that this was going on

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