This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, June 8th, 2015, and Keila Brown.

This month marks 10 years since the biggest eminent domain case ever before the US Supreme Court in Keelove,

the city of New London, Connecticut. The case found that

public use is no longer the standard for taking property from the public, only

public purpose matters.

Ilia Sowman is author of the new book The Grasping Hand which looks at the Kilo decision.

We spoke last month.

I think two things have changed.

One is that before Kilo there was a near consensus among law professors, judges, and other

experts that the government should be able to take private property for almost any reason

at once,

and the people who thought that the public use restrictions

of the Fifth Amendment, people who thought

that those were at all meaningful,

were either ill- inform about constitutional law or

extremists who could be discounted.

Now, thanks to Kilo, we have a big debate over this issue

when it's become mainstream to argue that public uses a real constraint and should really

be used to limit eminent domain.

The second thing that has changed is that 45 states have passed eminent domain reform laws since Kilo.

Well, many of those are not really effective.

There are good many that are.

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