Re:TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
by xxpor on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:41PM
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Last I checked, the DPA doesn't allow seizure, just forced manufacturing for a price. I'm not sure about the specifics, but it sounds like the theory is that there's at least a little profit in the price used under the DPA.
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Re:TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
by wahern on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:43PM
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No law could permit uncompensated seizure as it would violate the 4th Amendment. Forced labor would violate the 13th Amendment. A better to way to look at it is that the DPA sets the rules for commercial activity--if you want to undertake commercial activity, you have to do so subject to the regulating law, which in the case of the DPA includes the possibility of building and selling whatever the government requests. You could always choose to just walk away, of course.
Re:TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
by AaronFriel on Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:59PM
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The takings clause is quite interesting and I imagine that between the expansive national security powers granted to the President and Congress's assent, the Court and the Executive might find a way to justify such a taking perhaps by seizing the foreign ownership of the corporation.
Of course the takings clause could also be satisfied by compensating TSMC, which perhaps due to sanctions or congressional action could be tied up indefinitely.
Re:TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
by dragonwriter on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:57PM
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> No law could permit uncompensated seizure as it would violate the 4th Amendment.
5th.
> Forced labor would violate the 13th Amendment.
Not if the laborers were convicts, but, yes, generally.