Which of the Following Is a Permissible Eminent Domain Action

question 61

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a permissible eminent domain action under the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution?

• A) A pharmaceutical company takes over a residential neighborhood to expend its corporate headquarters.
• B) A state agency pays a homeowner $200 as compensation for building a highway through his home.
• C) The state's governor forecloses on a farmer's land to build a personal free-range chicken farm.
• D) A private non-profit organization brings a foreclosure action against a decrepit tenement in order to build a public park.
• E) The municipal government pays fair market value for the right to string power lines across a homeowner's property, then sells the right to the state's only electric company.

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