John E. Mogk, professor of law at Wayne State University, writes in an op-ed about the 1981 Poletown case involving the Michigan Supreme Court's ruling authorizing the city of Detroit to take land for the development of a factory by General Motors Corp. Mogk says "few cases in the history of American law have been manipulated more to promote a political ideology than Michigan's Poletown case." The Poletown case has recently emerged as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to decide a land dispute case from Connecticut at the federal level.