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Thursday, June 23, 2005

De minimis!

Justice Kennedy misspelled de minimis (in Kelo, the new Takings Clause case).
This taking occurred in the context of a comprehensive development plan meant to address a serious city-wide depression, and the projected economic benefits of the project cannot be characterized as de minimus.
Man, you would think with all those hardcore law review types helping him out, he'd never fall into the most obvious spelling pitfall in all of law.

UPDATE: Here's my new post on the actual substance of the case.

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