Brothers Ben and Hank Brinkmann never had a chance when they decided to expand their chain of Long Island hardware stores to a fifth location on a commercial lot in Southold, N.Y. Hostile to the Brinkmanns’ plans, town officials ensured their project failed. The town demanded tens of thousands of dollars for an impact study, […]
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Arif Panju is a managing attorney at the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Va. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.