Legal Opinion
Berman v. Parker
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 22, 1954No. 22PublishedCited by 1,116 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
This is an appeal (28 U. S. C. § 1253) from the judgment of a three-judge District Court which dismissed a complaint seeking to enjoin the condemnation of appellants’ property under the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945, 60 Stat. 790, D. C. Code, 1951, §§ 5-701-5-719. The challenge was to the constitutionality of the Act, particularly as applied to the taking of appellants’ property. The District Court sustained the constitutionality of the Act. 117 F. Supp. 705.
By § 2 of the Act, Congress made a “legislative determination” that “owing to technological and sociological changes,…
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