DBWI: No eminent domain for the Raiders

One of my favorite Supreme Court cases is theblandmark eminent domain case Davis v City of Oakland back in 1986, one that rendered Irsay v Maryland moot in the process and stopped Art Modell in his tracks. In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that government could seize private property for “public purpose” such as creating or preserving jobs, and that Oakland’s seizure of the Raiders was constitutional, paving the way for Maryland to seize the Colts and Cleveland to threaten to seize the Browns.

What if things had gone differently? It could be the Court going the other way, as four justices were on the fence about it. It could be Oakland declining to use eminent domain to prevent the Raiders from moving to LA. It could be any step in between as well. How would sports - and society - look without this ruling?

OOC: For you law buffs, the fictional SCOTUS case above actually happened in 2005 as Kelo vs City of New London and made the same ruling regarding eminent domain when New London, CT tried to seize public land to sell to Pfizer to bring manufacturing jobs to the city.
 
As you Say that changes the NFL forever, them owners couldnt whine and threat to move for new stadiums...that they got anyway ( except the Raiders...but that upgrades keep the colliseum decent) plus owners were forced to paid full their new stadiums or wait for cofinancing. Say anything of Jerry Jones but he paid fully for jerryworld and nobody cared.

How expansion would unfold? We could get a relocation mania Sans the Packers?
 
1 they go to 1 owner league 2. They kick teams out of the league 3. Expand to new cities 4. Profit
 
This law nearly destroyed the film industry in Georgia back in the late 2000s. The conversations saw this as an opportunity to buy movie studios to maintain the jobs and pass all the anti-LGTBQ rules and other conservative social rules they wanted. This backfired horribly since no one really wanted to work in Georgia and the only thing made were those religious right fundie films. The massive shift led to such a glut that even those films flopped in the Deep Soul.

This along with the recession earlier led to Georgia becoming a swing state when they ran most of the GOP out of office and then changing the rules to be the most progressive in the nation. Hell, it helped revive some of the lower class areas.

Granted, the rule had some use as The Sanders Administration used this along with a loophole to confiscate all the empty homes owned by banks and give them to the homeless to help stabilize them and promote jobs, which worked just in time for his re-election
 
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This law nearly destroyed the film industry in Georgia when all of the big movie studios left because of all of the anti-LGBTQ rules and when the government confiscated the new studios, they could only get a few crappy religious fundie films out that few went to see.
Yeah but those studios were buy back again at low price thanks they tanked, free market corrected that.

Granted, the rule had some use as The Sanders Administration used this along with a loophole to confiscate all the empty homes owned by banks and give them to the homeless to help stabilize them and promote jobs, which worked just in time for his re-election
So much Jimmy McMillan say the rent was just damn good now.
 
Yeah but those studios were buy back again at low price thanks they tanked, free market corrected that.

So much Jimmy McMillan say the rent was just damn good now.

Yeah, but even it took a while to recover though namely it's because of the changing policies within the industry. Namely in who is getting paid what so it's more fair. Granted, it does mean more fair wages for the bottom tier, including myself.

Then again, those buildings all end dup being bought by Legion M, which really helped them out.

So yeah, the ruling had some negative effects and some good ones. If nothing else, President Sanders has been having people debate laws to try and minimize any potential damage as a result.
 
What that decision did was by force recreate something that American business had happily allowed themselves to forget - corporate responsibility. They allowed themselves to forget that to chase every little nickel, and yes lots of governments have made them pay when they've made that mistake. Washington and Ottawa taking over General Motors pretty much drove that point home forever....
 
What that decision did was by force recreate something that American business had happily allowed themselves to forget - corporate responsibility. They allowed themselves to forget that to chase every little nickel, and yes lots of governments have made them pay when they've made that mistake. Washington and Ottawa taking over General Motors pretty much drove that point home forever....
That wasn't a disguised bailout? regardless new GM was able to recover and compete very fast so a 'change of leadership' was much needed
 
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