1. Downtown Cincinnati, in an area known as "Over the Rhine", has long been an area of poverty containing empty and rundown buildings.The city of Cincinnati wishes to use this area to create new businesses and spark economic development.Would the eminent domain power allow the city to take this property from the building owners for the purpose of economic rejuvenation and elimination of "blight" within the city?What U.S. Supreme Court case would serve as precedent for this issue?
2. Kansas passes a statutes which says all corn must be grown and processed in a certain manner so as to avoid harmful pesticides.This statute is challenged as being unconstitutional.What are the two factors for the court to consider when deciding whether the statute is constitutional?
3. Explain the difference in procedural due process and substantive due process, providing examples of each.
4. Beets R Us, LLC is a medium-sized farm in Iowa that grows beets that are only sold in Iowa.It does not export its beets outside of Iowa, though sometimes customers from out of state buy its beets while visiting Iowa.Is Beets R Us, LLC's business practices subject to federal jurisdiction under Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution?Why or why not?