When is your property not yours?

Local governments using "eminent domain" to give people's property and homes to private developers.

Eminent domain procedures are intended to let governments build needed services like bridges, roads and schools, but the Supreme Court has approved them even if the land ends up in private hands.

Homeowners and mom-and-pop businesspeople ask where in the American Dream it says that they must give up their lives and homes so the government can improve the tax base.

Nationwide, 10,000 businesses and homeowners have been told to make way for private development, according to the Institute for Justice, a Libertarian organization that is leading the fight against the use of eminent domain for private development.