Mr. Seelbach has refused to accept the $118,000 offered for his two-bedroom, one-bath frame dwelling in the Sunset Manor subdivision near St. Louis. "I can't find another home for $118,000, and at 83, there's no way I can even obtain a mortgage," he says(Price, Joyce. Drawing the line on eminent domain; States rush to counter court ruling. The Washington Times; 10/9/2005). ".

             Eminent domain is supposed to be for the purpose of highways and other needed projects that will provide benefit for everyone in the area that the land was seized, however in recent years government agencies have used eminent domain laws to force property owners out so that big business could come in(Ferguson, Bill (2005) Amendment needed to protect private property. Macon Telegraph (Macon, GA) . Whether it was a subdivision, a strip mall or a manufacturing plant thousands of property owners across the nation have lost their homes for the big business dollar. .

             The move to use eminent domain laws to seize private property for commercial purpose has spurred a nationwide homeowner movement to stop eminent domain from occurring anymore. .

             Unfortunately courts across the land have been supporting eminent domain laws, and in some cases giving them even more strength than they have had in the past. .

             "This was, perhaps, the most universally unpopular Supreme Court decision in recent memory," says Dana Berliner, a senior lawyer with the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public-interest law firm that was involved in the legal case. "It is a universally despised opinion(Price, Joyce. Drawing the line on eminent domain; States rush to counter court ruling. The Washington Times; 10/9/2005)." .

             A recent report indicates there have been more than 10, 000 cases of eminent domain nationwide between 1998 and 203. Ten thousand property owners displaced against their will for the purpose of business or highways. This is an unacceptable pattern that is only proving to increase as big business eyes the shrinking remaining land that is available.