Legal Opinion
Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 30, 1984No. 83-141PublishedCited by 920 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
The Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides, in pertinent part, that “private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation.” These cases present the question whether the Public Use Clause of that Amendment, made applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, prohibits the State of Hawaii from taking, with just compensation, title in real property from lessors and transferring it to lessees in order to reduce the concentration of ownership of fees simple in the State. We conclude that it does not.
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