Eminent Domain: Information About Its Uses and Effect on Property Owners and Communities
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0728.pdf
Reports on the purposes for which eminent domain can be and has been used, the process states and localities use to acquire land, how the use of eminent domain has affected individuals and communities, and the changes 29 state legislatures have made to laws governing the use of eminent domain since a controversial 2005 Supreme Court decision. From the Government Accountability Office.
