Initially that served to protect valuable timber stands; today's justification is protecting private homes.
"We're protecting private industry, not the public interest," Mr. Meltzer said.
Others say the real growth will be protecting private-sector targets, like schools, industrial plants and even Wal-Mart Stores.
This week, the complex is being protected by Tempe police officers, private security guards, N.F.L. and Giants security officials, and even agents from the F.B.I. and the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco and Firearms
In this plan, council tenants on the Love Lane estate are protected but private tenants and leaseholders are not.
The ruling in Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Glenn and JoLynn Bragg fuels an already fiery debate over whether groundwater can be protected alongside private property rights.
The savings banks, which are protected from private sale by law, do not want to merge with Landesbanks nor will they let them go to anyone else.
In a country where the tiny upper class is protected by private armed guards, and the police and justice system are considered untrustworthy, the non-rich feel like they're on their own.
While a number of scholars and courts have discussed whether patents are protected as "private property" under the Takings Clause, this paper argues that in some circumstances, patents themselves may constitute a taking.
WHAT -- 6-bedroom HOW MUCH -- $775,000 This house on two wooded acres sits on a ridge above Table Rock Lake, which has 857 miles of shoreline that is protected from private building for up to 200 feet from the water.
