Some of the recent ruling of the US Supreme Court are just so apalling to me. Take this one for instance from yesterday (June 23, 2005): The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, in one of its most closely watched property rights cases in years, that fostering economic development is an appropriate use of the government’s power of eminent domain.. That is just crazy. In a country that is supposedly built on the the foundations of freedom and the right of ownership, this really doesn’t seem right to me.