when payment of just compensation is delayed the owner is entitled to receive interest on the amount of the late payment 
a federal supreme court decision in the early 2000s and subsequent reactions to the decision have shaped the ability of governments to seize property under eminent domain for the sole reason of increasing tax revenue kelo v city of new london 545 u s 469 2005 affirmed the authority of new london conn to take non blighted private property by eminent domain and then transfer it for a dollar a year to a private developer solely for the purpose of increasing municipal revenues 4the decision spurred outcry about overly broad expropriation powers and prompted further action at both the state and federal levels the supreme courts of ill mich county of wayne v hathcock 2004 ohio norwood ohio v horney 2006 okla and s c subsequently ruled to disallow such takings under their state constitutions 56 there was also federal action despite relatively few expropriations being carried out by that level of government on the first anniversary of the kelo decision president george w bush issued an executive order stating that eminent domain may not be used by the federal government for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken 7