Property Seizure For Private School Allowed


	Property Seizure For Private School Allowed

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1-2-2008 8:08 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dfbefe71-9a65-4a60-ac4e-2ed8ab6aebe3/88F84EB6-E3E5-4998-928F-28DBA9112E46/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19501" href="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19501" style="font-size: 11px;">www.firstamendmentcenter.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19501">A city agency acted legally when it seized a woman's home 
to help a religious group build a private school in a blighted Philadelphia 
neighborhood, the state Supreme Court ruled last week.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19501"><P>In a case pitting eminent domain against the separation of church and state, 
the state high court's ruling reversed a ruling by the lower Commonwealth Court, 
which had sided with homeowner Mary Smith.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19501"><P>"The principal or primary effect of the redevelopment plan ... is to 
eliminate blight in this particular neighborhood," Supreme Court Justice Cynthia 
Baldwin wrote <A href="http://www.courts.state.pa.us/OpPosting/Supreme/out/J-20-2007mo.pdf">for the majority.</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19501"><P>A secondary effect could be the advancement of religion, but there is no 
evidence that is the primary goal, she wrote.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19501"><P>The city Redevelopment Authority condemned Smith's property in North 
Philadelphia in 2003 and transferred it to the Hope Partnership for Education, a 
Catholic organization that proposed a nondenominational middle school for the 
site, among other projects.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/88F84EB6-E3E5-4998-928F-28DBA9112E46/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>