Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff

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Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 26th, 1984 Decided May 30th, 1984
Full case name	Hawaii Housing Authority, et al. v. Midkiff, et al.
Citations	467 U.S. 229 (more) 104 S. Ct. 2321, 81 L. Ed. 2d 186, 1984 U.S. LEXIS 94
Case history
Prior	Summary judgment for defendant, Midkiff v. Tom, 483 F. Supp. 62 (D. Haw. 1979); reversed, 702 F.2d 788 (9th Cir. 1983); probable jurisdiction noted, 464 U.S. 932 (1983).
Holding
The state can use eminent domain powers to redistribute concentrated property ownership to a larger group of people.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinion
Majority	O'Connor, joined by unanimous
Marshall took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. V

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.^[1]