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* Oral arguments were heard on May 20 in the case of five Norwood, Ohio, property owners whose homes and small businesses are in danger of being confiscated and handed over to a private real-estate developer. The Constitution recognizes governments' ability to exercise the power of "eminent domain": the power to confiscate private property for public use so long as its owners are justly compensated. But the developer in this case--who refuses to purchase individual plots from owners willing to sell them--has persuaded the Norwood City Council to blight the entire area and ...