Powerful industry groups back family hardware business in eminent domain battle by Bob Unruh

Several influential and powerful industry organizations have come to the Supreme Court arguing in support of a family fighting a town’s eminent domain decision to take property they intended to use for a hardware store. According to the Institute for Justice, which is fighting on behalf of the Brinkmann family, the fight is over the Brinkmann family’s purchase of property in Southold for a hardware store, and the city’s confiscation of that property for a “park” that is supposed to be left entirely undeveloped. The case argues the town had...