COUNTY OF WAYNE, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Edward HATHCOCK, Defendant-Appellant.
County of Wayne, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Aaron T. Speck and Donald E. Speck, individuals, Defendants-Appellants.
County of Wayne, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Aubins Service, Inc., David R. York, Trustee, David R. York Revocable Living Trust, Defendants-Appellants.
County of Wayne, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Jeffrey J. Komisar, Defendant-Appellant.
County of Wayne, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Robert Ward and Lela Ward, Defendants-Appellants, and
Henry Y. Cooley, Defendant.
County of Wayne, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Mrs. James Grizzle and Michael A. Baldwin, Defendant-Appellants, and
Ramie Fakhoury, Defendant.
County of Wayne, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Stephanie A. Komisar, Defendant-Appellant.
County of Wayne, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Thomas L. Goff, Norma Goff, Mark A. Baker, Jr., and Kathleen A. Barker, Defendants-Appellants.
County of Wayne, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Vincent Finazzo, Defendant-Appellant, and
Aubrey L. Gregory and Dulcina Gregory, Defendants.
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Argued April 21, 2004.
Decided July 30, 2004.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Zausmer, Kaufman, August & Caldwell, P.C. (by Mark J. Zausmer and Mischa M. Gibbons), Farmington Hills, MI, for the plaintiff.
Ackerman & Ackerman, P.C. (by Alan T. Ackerman and Darius W. Dynkowski) [Troy, MI], Plunkett & Cooney, P.C. (by Mary Massaron Ross), Detroit, MI, and Allan Falk, P.C. (by Allan S. Falk), Okemos, MI, for the defendants.
Martin N. Fealk, Taylor, MI, for defendants Speck.
Kupelian Ormond & Magy, P.C. (by Stephon B. Bagne), Southfield, for amici curiae the International Council of Shopping Centers, Inc.
Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Hampton, Truex and Morley (by Gerald A. Fisher and Thomas R. Schultz), Farmington Hills, for amici curiae the Public Corporation Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan.
Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. (by Thomas C. Phillips, Clifford T. Flood, Jaclyn Shoshana Levine, and Thomas C. Phillips), Lansing, for amici curiae the Michigan Municipal League.
Dykema Gossett P.L.L.C. (by Richard D. McLellan and Julie A. Karkosak), Lansing, for amici curiae the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
Monghan, LoPrete, McDonald, Yakima, Grenke & McCarthy (by Thomas J. McCarthy), Bloomfield Hills, for amici curiae the city of Dearborn.
Steinhardt Pesick & Cohen, P.C. (by H. Adam Cohen and Jason C. Long), for amici curiae the Adell Children's Funded Trusts.
Lewis & Munday, P.C. (by David Baker Lewis, Brian J. Kott, Susan D. Hoffman, and Darice E. Weber), Detroit, for amici curiae the Economic Development Corporation of the City of Detroit, the City of Detroit Downtown Development Authority, and the Michigan Downtown and Financing Association.
Williams Acosta, P.L.L.C. (by Avery K. Williams), Detroit, for amici curiae the city of Detroit.
Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and S. Peter Manning, Assistant Attorney General, Lansing, for amici curiae the Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture Division.
Ronald Reosti, Detroit, Ralph Nader, Washington, D.C., and Alan Hirsch, Williamstown, MA, for amici curiae the citizens of Michigan.
John F. Rohe, Petoskey, and Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute (by Robert G. Dreher), Washington, D.C., for amici curiae the National Congress for Community Economic Development.
Marc K. Shaye, Franklin, James S. Burling, and Timothy Sandefur, Sacramento, CA, for amici curiae the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Kary L. Moss and Michael J. Steinberg, Detroit, for amici curiae the American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan.
Law Office of Parker and Parker (by John Ceci), Howell, and Institute for Justice (by Dana Berliner, William H. Mellor, Washington, D.C., and Ilya Somin), Assistant Professor of Law, Arlington, VA, for amici curiae the Institute for Justice and Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Supreme Court of Michigan.
Opinion
YOUNG, J.
We are presented again with a clash of two bedrock principles of our legal tradition: the sacrosanct right of individuals to dominion over their private property, on the one hand and, on the other, the state's authority to condemn private property for the commonwealth. In this case, Wayne County would use the power of eminent domain to condemn defendants' real properties for the construction of a 1,300-acre business and technology park...
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