means are not irrational, our cases make clear that empirical debates over the wisdom of takings - no less than debates over the wisdom of other kinds of socioeconomic legislation - are not to be carried out in the federal courts. Justice O'Connor Regulating oligopoly and the evils associated with it is a classic exercise of a State's police powers. 6-8. A purely private taking could not withstand the scrutiny of the public use requirement; it would serve no legitimate purpose of government, and would thus be void. U.S. 229, 237] Footnote 2 449 ] We similarly find no merit in appellees' Due Process and Contract Clause arguments. But where the exercise of the eminent domain power is rationally related to a conceivable public purpose, the Court has never held a compensated taking to be proscribed by the Public Use Clause. . v. Frank E. MIDKIFF et al. Hawaii's Constitution has only a parallel requirement that a taking be for a public use. See generally Brief for Office of Hawaiian Affairs as Amicus Curiae 3-5. The only extant proceedings at the state level prior to the September, 1979, eminent domain lawsuit in state court were HHA's administrative hearings. See Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc., 422 U. S. 922, 422 U. S. 929 -931 (1975). "[W]hat in its immediate aspect [is] only a private transaction may... be raised by its class or character to a public affair." the Public Use Clause. It then acquires, at prices set by a condemnation trial or by negotiation between lessors and lessees, the former fee owners' "right, title, and interest" in the land, and may then sell the land titles to the applicant lessees. Id. Berman v. Parker and Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff - and (2) those precedents are implicitly limited (it cannot be claimed that they are expressly so limited) to . Subject to specific constitutional limitations, when the legislature has spoken, the public interest has been declared in terms well-nigh conclusive. state legislative determination[s]." Justia makes no guarantees or warranties that the annotations are accurate or reflect the current state of law, and no annotation is intended to be, nor should it be construed as, legal advice. These efforts proved largely unsuccessful, however, and the land remained in the hands of a few.   Second, it determined that these cases involved only, "the review of . U.S. 932 Id., at 32-33. Rindge Co. v. Los Angeles, 262 U.S. at 262 U. S. 707. In other cases, federal courts must normally fulfill their duty to adjudicate federal questions properly brought before them. But no purely private taking is involved in these cases. The Hawaii Legislature enacted its Land Reform Act not to benefit a particular class of identifiable individuals, but to attack certain perceived evils of concentrated property ownership in Hawaii -a legitimate public purpose. (1925), which held that deference to the legislature's "public use" determination is required "until it is shown to involve an impossibility." Those negotiations failed, and HHA subsequently ordered appellees to submit to compulsory arbitration. -672 (1981); see also Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co., § 516-51(b) (1976). the District Court refused preliminarily to enjoin appellants from conducting the statutory designation and condemnation proceedings. Found inside – Page 21At issue in Lucas v . ... In separate dissenting opinions , Justices Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul Stevens advanced a limited conception of property rights . ... In Hawaii Housing Authority v . Midkiff ( 1984 ) the Supreme Court ... at 348 U. S. 32. Pp. Field's dissent in Munn v. illinois argued that the state law in question: . 464 Footnote 5 ; and No. 5 Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals, and remand these cases for further proceedings in conformity with this opinion. one person's property may not be taken for the benefit of another private person without a justifying public purpose, even though compensation be paid. id. In Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U. S. 229 (1984), the Court considered a Hawaii statute whereby fee title was taken from lessors and transferred to lessees (for just compensation) in order to reduce the concentration of land ownership. by Daniel H. Case. The subchiefs would then reassign the land to other lower ranking chiefs, who would administer the land and govern the farmers and other tenants working it. The District Court temporarily restrained the State from proceeding against appellees' estates. Found inside – Page 910Justice Stevens , writing for the majority , rested the decision largely on two earlier cases , Berman v . Parker and Hawaii Housing Authority v . Midkiff , which both emphasized a broad understanding of the “ public use ” requirement ... Rather than comply with this order, appellees filed suit in Federal District Court, asking that the Act be declared unconstitutional and that its enforcement be enjoined. whether in fact the provision will accomplish its objectives is not the question: the [constitutional requirement] is satisfied if... the... [state] Legislature rationally could have believed that the [Act] would promote its objective. The District Court temporarily restrained HHA from proceeding against appellees' estates. See, e. g., Cincinnati v. Vester, Rindge Co. v. Los Angeles, 516-30, 516-34, 516-35. We do not believe that abstention was required. This appeal . KAHALA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC., et al. If HHA finds that these public purposes will be served, it is authorized The dissenting judge also suggested that abstention was required under the standards articulated in Younger v. Harris, supra. * As categorized by the Washington University Law Supreme Court Database, DISCLAIMER: Only United States Reports are legally valid sources for Supreme Court opinions. This principle admits of no exception merely because the power of eminent domain is involved.... Id. HHA is authorized to lend these tenants up to 90% of the purchase price, and it may condition final transfer on a right of first refusal for the first 10 years following sale. The only extant proceedings at the state level prior to the September, 1979, eminent domain lawsuit in state court were HHA's administrative hearings. It is a legitimate public purpose to remedy a limited concentration of ownership that inflates prices in the real estate market. By abstaining in such cases, federal courts will avoid both unnecessary adjudication of federal questions and "needless friction with state policies...." Id. Found inside – Page 520THOMAS , J. , dissenting supra , at 668-669 . In Berman , for example , if the ... Bloodgood v . Mohawk & Hudson R. Co. , 18 Wend . 9 , 60–61 ( NY 1837 ) ( opinion of Tracy , Sen. ) . ... In Hawaii Housing Authority v . Midkiff , 467 ... Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a state could use eminent domain to take land that was overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of private landowners and redistribute it to the wider population of private residents. But the relevant inquiry is not whether there is a bare, though unlikely, possibility that state courts might render adjudication of the federal question unnecessary. at 798 (emphasis in original). Rev. In Hawaii Housing Authority v Midkiff, the Court determined that the states exercise of eminent domain: . We do not believe that abstention was required. The adequacy of compensation is not before us. Block v. Hirsh, 256 U.S. at 256 U. S. 155. If HHA finds that these public purposes will be served, it is authorized. . See United States Trust Co. v. New Jersey, 431 U. S. 1, 431 U. S. 19, and n. 16 (1977). Found inside – Page 64Court in cases such as Berman v Parker23 and Hawaii Housing Authority v Midkiff,24 upheld the proposed takings. on further appeal, ... O'Connor J filed a dissenting opinion, in which Rehnquist CJ and Scalia and Thomas JJ joined. The Hawaii Legislature enacted its Land Reform Act not to benefit a particular class of identifiable individuals, but to attack certain perceived evils of concentrated property ownership in Hawaii -- a legitimate public purpose. 4. ] As originally enacted, lessor and lessee had to commence compulsory arbitration if they could not agree on a price for the fee simple title. Id. 83-141 Argued: March 26, 1984 Decided: May 30, 1984 [ Footnote * ] Together with No. ] It is worth noting that the Fourteenth Amendment does not itself contain an independent "public use" requirement. ." Parker, 348 U. S. 26 (1954), and Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U. S. 229 (1984), cases that take center stage in the Court's opinion. 164. [467 Under the Act, lessees living on single-family residential lots within tracts at least five acres in size are entitled to ask appellant Hawaii Housing Authority (HHA) to condemn the property on which they live. But the Act clearly states that these administrative proceedings are not part of, and are not themselves, a judicial proceeding, for "mandatory arbitration shall be in advance of and shall not constitute any part of any action in condemnation or eminent domain." Justice Kennedy concurring: This Court has declared that a taking should be upheld as consistent with the Public Use Clause, U. S. §§ 516-1(2), (11), 516-22 (1977). 426 . Id. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals, and remand these cases for further proceedings in conformity with this opinion. Pp. v. Frank E. MIDKIFF et al. In Railroad Comm'n v. Pullman Co., supra, this Court held that federal courts should abstain from decision when difficult and unsettled questions of state law must be resolved before a substantial federal constitutional question can be decided. 464 U.S. 932 (1983). Eminent domain powers of states and municipalities have been augmented by a recent Supreme Court decision in the case of Hawaii Housing Authority v.Midkiff. The majority of the Court of Appeals next determined that the Act violates the "public use" requirement of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. We now reverse. In Berman, the Court held constitutional the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945. HHA made the statutorily required finding that acquisition of appellees' lands would effectuate the public purposes of the Act. Appellants argue that this makes the project a taking from one businessman for the benefit of another businessman. After the American Revolution, the colonists in several States took steps to eradicate the feudal incidents with which large proprietors had encumbered land in the Colonies. The majority opinion and decision of the court was delivered by Justice Stevens. The Act unambiguously provides that "[t]he use of the power . On page 7 of your draft you state: "Under Younger-abstention doctrine, federal courts must dismiss federal claims that have At that time, no state judicial proceedings were in process. The contributors in this volume address the fundamental relationship between the state and its citizens, and among the people themselves. Discussion centers on a recent decision by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Kelo v. We disagree with the Court of Appeals' analysis. That Act provided both for the comprehensive use of the eminent domain power to redevelop slum areas and for the possible sale or lease of the condemned lands to private interests. [Footnote 6], The Court of Appeals read our cases to stand for a much narrower proposition. 7 463 U.S. 1323 77 L.Ed.2d 1426 HAWAII HOUSING AUTHORITY et al. Found inside – Page 170Id. 93. Id. at 683 (Bird, dissenting and concurring opinion). 94. Hawaii REV. STAT. §§ 516-83. 95. Midkiffv. Tom, 702 F. 2d 788, 805 (1983), Judge Poole's concurring opinion. 96. Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 52 U.S.L.W. 4673 at ... I, § 20. U.S. 229, 242] The dissenting judge's suggestion that Pullman abstention was required because interpretation of the State Constitution may have obviated resolution of the federal constitutional question is equally faulty. ", Thompson v. Consolidated Gas Corp., 300 U. S. 55, 300 U. S. 80 (1937). at 164 U. S. 416 (emphasis added), the Court invalidated a compensated taking of property for lack of a justifying public purpose. But the means of executing the project are for Congress and Congress alone to determine, once the public purpose has been established.". In Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U. S. 229 (1984), the Court considered a Hawaii statute whereby fee title was taken from lessors and transferred to lessees (for just compensation) in order to reduce the concentration of land ownership. The starting point for our analysis of the Act's constitutionality is the Court's decision in Berman v. Parker, 348 U. S. 26 (1954). The Act does not violate the "public use" requirement of the Fifth Amendment. Haw. See, e.g., Wilson v. Iseminger, 185 U. S. 55, 185 U. S. 60-61 (1902); Stewart v. Gorter, 70 Md. Stevens was particularly critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's dissenting opinion, which he claims contradicted her earlier opinion in Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff. In either case, compensation must equal the fair market value of the owner's leased fee interest. If HHA determines that these public purposes will be served, it is authorized to designate some or all of the lots in the tract for acquisition. A more important aspect of the dissenting opinion, however, was its departure from the majority's view of the legal principles involved. At that time, no state judicial proceedings were in process. PORTLOCK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (Maunalua Beach) et al. Footnote * Similarly, the fact that a state legislature, and not the Congress, made the public use determination does not mean that judicial deference is less appropriate. The Court long ago rejected any literal requirement that condemned property be put into use for the general public. . U.S. 922, 929 ; and No. Found inside – Page 149Dissenting opinion, Morey v. Doud, 354 U.S. 457 (1957), at 471. ... to break up large estates and transfer land ownership to the states' tenants (Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229). 20. 304 U.S. 144 (1938). In these cases, there is no uncertain question of state law. The subchiefs would then reassign the land to other lower ranking chiefs, who would administer the land and govern the farmers and other tenants working it. If HHA does not sell the lot to the tenant residing there, it may lease the lot or sell it to someone else, provided that public notice has been given. All land was held at the will of the ali'i nui and eventually had to be returned to his trust. See United States Trust Co. v. New Jersey, Const., Amdt. § 516-25. 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." See 483 F. Supp. Re: 83-141 - Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff 83-236 - Portlock Comm. That Act provided both for the comprehensive use of the eminent domain power to redevelop slum areas and for the possible sale or lease of the condemned lands to private interests. Thompson v. Consolidated Gas Corp., of Equalization, 6-8.   (1971). to condemn . lessors and transferring it to lessees in order to reduce the concentration of ownership of fees simple in the State. There is, of course, a role for courts to play in reviewing a legislature's judgment of what constitutes a public use, even when the eminent domain power is equated with the police power. Found inside – Page 22222 Justice O'Connor placed Berman v . Parker and Hawaii Housing Authority v . Midkiff within the third category.223 She emphasized that even in earlier decisions that fell within the third category , the Court had adhered to the ... . No appeal was taken from these rulings, and the Hawaii Legislature subsequently amended the statute to provide only for mandatory negotiation and for advisory compensation formulae. to designate some or all of the lots in the tract for acquisition. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed. 440 (1941), and Younger v. Harris, 400 Found insideToday's decision is simply the latest in a string of our cases construing the Public Use Clause to be a virtual nullity, without the slightest ... Parker, 348 U.S. 26, 75 S. Ct. 98, 99 L. Ed. 27 (1954), and Hawaii Housing Authority v. 431 The owner of an unblighted . Since we assume for purposes of these appeals that the weighty demand of just compensation has been met, the requirements of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments have been satisfied. Then, Hawaii Housing Authority (Petitioner) sold the land back to the tenants or lessees who requested the condemnation and wanted to buy the land. See App. has gradu-ally eroded to the point of extinction the so-called "public use" re-quirement.' The unanimous Midkiff court, in a strongly-worded opinion by Justice O'Connor, upheld the constitutionality of Ha- waii's Land Reform Act of 1967,10 which created a land condemna- . See ante, 10—12. Footnote 6 The argument that due process prohibits allowing lessees to initiate the taking process was essentially rejected by this Court in New Motor Vehicle Board v. Fox Co., to reduce the perceived social and economic evils of a Younger abstention is required, however, only when state court proceedings are initiated "before any proceedings of substance on the merits have taken place in the federal court." But where the exercise of the eminent domain power is rationally related to a conceivable public purpose, the Court has never held a compensated taking to be proscribed by the Public Use Clause. 83-236, Portlock Community Association (Maunalua Beach) et al. When such a malfunction is signalled, the Act authorizes HHA to condemn lots in the relevant tract. . . The land oligopoly has, according to the Hawaii Legislature, created artificial deterrents to the normal functioning of the State's residential land market and forced thousands of individual homeowners to lease, rather than buy, the land underneath their homes. (1983). 160 If you need to cite the exact text of this opinion or if you would like to view the opinions of the other Justices in this case, please view the original United States Report at the Library of Congress or Justia. In such cases, the legislature, not the judiciary, is the main guardian of the public needs to be served by social legislation, whether it, be Congress legislating concerning the District of Columbia . In the history of Hawaii, land ownership was restricted to the state and federal governments, which owned about half of the land, and a small group of landholders. Younger abstention is required only when state court proceedings are initiated before any proceedings of substance on the merits have occurred in federal court. 62 (Haw. When 25 eligible tenants, [Footnote 1] or tenants on half the lots in the tract, whichever is less, file appropriate applications, the Act authorizes HHA to hold a public hearing to determine whether acquisition by the State of all or part of the tract will "effectuate the public purposes" of the Act. There is no other provision of the Act -- or, for that matter, of Hawaii law -- which would suggest that. Header photo: United States Supreme Court. Found inside – Page 5The Supreme Court, Kelo v. New London, and the Takings ... Once the case was decided in Connecticut, those friendly and those opposed to the decision offered advice in droves. ... Parker (1954) and Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff ... Of course, this Act, like any other, may not be successful in achieving its intended goals. bar to federal court action when state judicial proceedings have not themselves commenced, see Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Assn., supra, at 433; Fair Assessment in Real Estate Assn., Inc. v. McNary, Appellees filed their federal court complaint in February, 1979, asking for temporary and permanent relief. No. The District Court temporarily restrained the State from proceeding against appellees' estates. It found that the transfers contemplated by the Act were unlike those of takings previously held to constitute "public uses" by this Court. Found insideThe cases were Berman v. Parker, 348 U.S. 26, 75 S. Ct. 98 (1954), and Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229, 104 S. Ct. 2321 (1984). In a portion of Justice O'Connor's dissenting opinion not produced above, the impact of ... Indeed, in June 1979, when the District Court granted, in part, appellees' motion for a preliminary injunction, state court proceedings still had not been initiated. We now reverse. Field's dissent in Munn v. illinois argued that the state law in question: . The definition is essentially the product of legislative determinations addressed to the purposes of government, purposes neither abstractly nor historically capable of complete definition. (1979). 256 467 U. S. 239-244. v. Midkiff et al., also on appeal from the same court. Haw. After HHA had held a public hearing on the proposed acquisition of appellees' lands and had found that such acquisition would effectuate the Act's public purposes, it directed appellees to negotiate with certain lessees concerning the sale of the designated properties. The Court long ago rejected any literal requirement that condemned property be put into use for the general public. On this basis, we have no trouble concluding that the Hawaii Act is constitutional. 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." The dissenting judge's suggestion that Pullman abstention was required because interpretation of the State Constitution may have obviated resolution of the federal constitutional question is equally faulty. Then, the Court of Appeals determined that the Act could not pass the requisite judicial scrutiny of the Public Use Clause. In the abstract, of course, such possibilities always exist. 1779, 1775-1781 Pa. Acts 258, ch. U.S. 55, 80 Found inside – Page 177Hawaii Housing Authority v . Midkiff Majority - O'Connor 24. Kaiser Aetna v . United States Majority - Rehnquist Dissenting - Blackmun , Brennan , Marshall 25. Keystone Bituminous Coal Ass ' n v . DeBenedictis Majority - Stevens ... . Co. v. State Bd. [state] Legislature rationally could have believed that the [Act] would promote its objective." Thus, in Missouri Pacific R. Co. v. Nebraska, to designate some or all of the lots in the tract for acquisition. . Ibid. 83-141. The Berman Court also cited to United States ex rel. When these negotiations failed, HHA ordered appellees to submit to compulsory arbitration as provided by the Act. (1971), abstention from federal jurisdiction is not required. Rather, that requirement is made binding on the States only by incorporation of the Fifth Amendment's Eminent Domain Clause through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. First, it read our "public use" cases, especially Berman, as requiring that government possess and use property at some point during a taking. Rather, "[w]e have frequently emphasized that abstention is not to be ordered unless the statute is of an uncertain nature, and is obviously susceptible of a limiting construction." U.S. 229, 230] In one, Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff (Kamiloiki Valley), case no. This principle admits of no exception merely because the power of eminent domain is involved. . See 702 F.2d at 811-812. The definition is essentially the product of legislative determinations addressed to the purposes of government, purposes neither abstractly nor historically capable of complete definition. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus See Brief for Appellants in Nos. 281 Rindge Co. v. Los Angeles, 262 U.S. at 262 U. S. 707. Justice Stevens' opinion for the majority stated that the Connecticut Supreme Court's decision was consistent with 100 years worth of judicial precedent, citing often to the Court's prior decisions in Berman v. Parker, 348 U.S. 26 (1954) and Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (1984). Indeed, the landowners claimed that the federal tax laws were the primary reason they previously had chosen to lease, and not sell, their lands. In other cases, federal courts must normally fulfill their duty to adjudicate federal questions properly brought before them. See Berman v. Parker, supra; Rindge Co. v. Los Angeles, 262 U. S. 700 (1923); Block v. Hirsh, 256 U. S. 135 (1921); cf. Footnote 3 Redistribution of fees simple to correct deficiencies in the market determined by the state legislature to be attributable to land oligopoly is a rational exercise of the eminent domain power. See, e.g., Act of May 1779, 10 Henning's Statutes At Large 64, ch. This Court has declared that a taking should be upheld as consistent with the Public Use Clause, U.S. Courts have never doubted that such statutes served a public purpose. (1971). a naked attempt on the part of the state of Hawaii to take the private property of A and transfer it to B solely for B's private use and benefit. In Railroad Comm'n v. Pullman Co., supra, this Court held that federal courts should abstain from decision when difficult and unsettled questions of state law must be resolved before a substantial federal constitutional question can be decided. congressional determination[s] that there was a public use, not the review of . First, it read our "public use" cases, especially Berman, as requiring that government possess and use property at some point during a taking. "[W]hat in its immediate aspect [is] only a private transaction may . 262 329 Found inside – Page 547In her dissenting opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor distinguished New London's use of eminent domain from takings the Court had approved in its earlier decisions, in particular Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff (1984), where ... HAWAII HOUSING AUTHORITY v. MIDKIFF(1984). By condemning the land in question, the Hawaii Legislature intended to make the land sales involuntary, thereby making the federal tax consequences less severe while still facilitating the redistribution of fees simple. This Court will not substitute its judgment for a legislature's judgment as to what constitutes "public use" unless the use is palpably without reasonable foundation. 3-4, and nn. 516, which created a mechanism for condemning residential tracts and for transferring ownership of the condemned fees simple to existing lessees. On this argument, however, we find ourselves in agreement with the dissenting judge in the Court of Appeals. at 348 U. S. 32 (citations omitted).   The dissenting judge also suggested that abstention was required under the standards articulated in Younger v. Harris, supra. 516-83(a)(12) (1977); see also 516-83(a)(10), (11), (13). Found inside – Page 97At issue in Lucas v . ... In separate dissenting opinions , Justices Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul Stevens advanced a limited conception of property rights . ... In Hawaii Housing Authority v . Midkiff ( 1984 ) the Supreme Court ... Stat. The Court explicitly recognized the breadth of the principle it was announcing, noting: Once the object is within the authority of Congress, the right to realize it through the exercise of eminent domain is clear. Rev.Stat. Id. Hicks v. Miranda, 78518. Midkiff v. Tom, 483 F.Supp. Nos. The case was brought following the city of New London, Connecticut, moving to condemn privately-owned real property so it could be used as part of a comprehensive redevelopment plan. We do not believe that abstention was required. but denying relief as to others. (1954). Subject to specific constitutional limitations, when the legislature has spoken, the public interest has been declared in terms well-nigh conclusive. Under the Act's condemnation scheme, tenants living on single-family residential lots within developmental tracts at least five acres in size are entitled to ask the Hawaii Housing Authority (HHA) to condemn the property on which they live. Hicks v. Miranda, 422 U. S. 332, 422 U. 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