Too Rich to Lose Money? AIG, the Takings Clause and the Roberts Court
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Posted 01.14.2013
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The Takings Clause made national news last week with the spectacle of AIG playing Hamlet in debating whether "to sue, or not to sue" the federal government over the terms of the company's bailout -- a rather backhanded way of thanking American taxpayers for keeping the company from bankruptcy in 2008.
