Texas Overpaid Miers in Land Sale

Texas officials paid Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’ family more than $100,000 for a small piece of land in 2000 - 10 times the land’s worth - despite the state’s objections to the way the price was determined, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported Saturday.

The three-member committee that determined the price included Peggy Lundy, a friend of Miers, and property-rights activist Cathie Adams, Knight Ridder reported. They were appointed to the panel by state District Judge David Evans, who had received at least $5,000 in campaign contributions from Miers’ law firm.

The land in question was part of a parcel in west Dallas owned by Miers’ mother, Sally; Harriet Miers had the authority to represent her mother’s interests. Texas needed the northeast corner of the parcel to build an interstate highway off-ramp…{{link http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-scotus/2005/oct/22/102200559.html MORE}}

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