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• Do You Remember One of the Worst Supreme Court Decisions Ever?

  
  American Elephants — Authority: 430
  Do you remember Kelo v. City of New London? It involved the constitutional question of eminent domain, which has traditionally allowed governments to condemn privately owned land only for a public purpose such as a needed bridge or a freeway, a use that serves all the people.The Supreme Court’s 2005 decision stands ...
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• More on the Implications of Pfizer’s Decision to Close Down its New London Headquarters

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  Over at the Land Use Prof Blog, property scholar Matt Festa has a good discussion of the implications of Pfizer’s decision to close down its New London headquarters for the ongoing debate over the use of eminent domain to promote economic development. As I explained in this post , the construction of this Pfizer ...
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• Texas’ Amendment 11: Another Post-Kelo Eminent Domain Reform that Falls Short

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  It hasn’t gotten much media attention, but last week, Texas voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 11 , an eminent domain reform measure that purports to ban “economic development” takings of the kind the Supreme Court upheld in Kelo v. City of New London . Texas badly needs stronger protection for ...
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• Pfizer to Close Facility Behind Kelo Case

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 652
  Yesterday, Pfizer announced it was closing its research and development facility in New London, Connecticut. This is the same complex that was at the center of the redevelopment plan at issue in Kelo v. New London . From the Castle Coalition : This was the same bogus development plan that five justices of the ...
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• Eminent Domain Abuse is . . . Well, Abuse

  
  Constant Conservative — Authority: 135
  Do you remember Kelo? The case in Connecticut where a number of private home owners were forced to give up their property so someone else could use it for better purposes (and generate much greater tax revenues for the state)? Darleen at Protein Wisdom remembers: Oh. BUT WAIT!!! Pfizer abandons site of ...
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• Kelo… redevelopment project area.. four year later

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 573
  When meeting victims of eminent domain abuse you feel powerless to come to their aide other than to see if there were any mistakes in the process that could be contested before the bulldozer arrives at their front door without an invitation.We met New London, CT victims Susette Kelo and the Cristofaro’s, along with ...
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• How often do we have to say it?

  
  Michigan Taxes Too Much — Authority: 470
  “I told you so.” A July 2004 decision by Michigan’s supreme court was quite correct in its assessment of taking of public land for private use.  It is a wrong use of government power and eminent domain.  In the case of County of Wayne v. Hathcock , the Michigan Supreme Court handed down a decision that ...
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• There is no honor among thieves

  
  The Peoria Chronicle — Authority: 425
  From the Washington Examiner : The private homes that New London, Conn., took away from Suzette Kelo and her neighbors have been torn down. Their former site is a wasteland of fields of weeds, a monument to the power of eminent domain. But now Pfizer, the drug company whose neighboring research facility had been ...
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• A Bitter Irony For Pfizer And A Connecticut Town

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 595
  There must be bitter irony circulating in the air over New London, Ct., where Pfizer plans to close its eight-year-old, $300 million R&D facility that employs 1,400 people. Those jobs will be transferred to nearby Groton as part of a massive downsizing announced yesterday that involves shuttering six R&D sites ...
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• Bruce Ratner Finally Admits It: "This isnt a public project"

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 519
  Reason Online By Damon Root Finally something we can all agree on: Last month, New York’s highest court heard oral arguments in Goldstein v. New York State Urban Development Corporation, which centered on the state’s controversial use of eminent domain on behalf of real estate tycoon Bruce Ratner, who ...
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• EMINENT DOMAINIA

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 519
  NEW LONDON: SHOCKER! The City of New London went to the mat to sieze the homes of residents of the modest waterfront neighborhood of Fort Trumbull, ultimately winning a 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court to allow taking of private property for economic development purposes. The houses were razed, but the redevelopment ...
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• Pfizer Corporation Plans to Abandon New London Headquarters that Led to the Kelo Takings

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  The Pfizer Corporation has announced that it will close down its headquarters in New London, Connecticut . [HT: my former student Josh Blackman , and other VC readers]. As our regular readers may recall, Pfizer played a key role in instigating the notorious condemnations that led to the Supreme Court’s decision ...
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• Pfizer abandons site of infamous Kelo eminent domain taking

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 519
  Washington Examiner by Timothy P. Carney The private homes that New London, Conn., took away from Suzette Kelo and her neighbors have been torn down. Their former site is a wasteland of fields of weeds, a monument to the power of eminent domain. But now Pfizer, the drug company whose neighboring ...
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• Remember Kelo?

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 140
  Remember how the town of New London, Conn. took away Suzette Kelo’s house “for public use”? Well, the public certainly was used . Pfizer abandons site of infamous Kelo eminent domain taking Scott Bullock, Kelo’s co-counsel in the case, told me: “This shows the folly of these redevelopment projects ...
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• Pfizer not going to need those New London homes seized, after all.

  
  RedState — Authority: 803
  Some background here ; there’s also an actual book on the subject called Little Pink House .  Anyway, turns out that there was no need in this specific case to throw out residents from their houses; it was superfluous to requirements, apparently. Pfizer abandons site of infamous Kelo eminent domain taking ...
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• Pfizer not going to need those New London homes seized, after all.

  
  Moe Lane — Authority: 672
  Some background here ; there’s also an actual book on the subject called Little Pink House .  Anyway, turns out that there was no need in this specific case to throw out residents from their houses; it was superfluous to requirements, apparently. Pfizer abandons site of infamous Kelo eminent domain taking ...
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• Pfizer abandons site of infamous property rights case

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 602
  One of the worst decisions by the Supreme Court, at least in recent memory, was Kelo v. New London . This decison redefined the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment , allowing local governments to use eminent domain to take private property for private use or economic development. The City of New London used ...
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• Pfizer to close New London campus

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 519
  The [New London, CT] Day by Lee Howard Pfizer, the private corporation for which the City of New London, Connecticut seized the little pink house belonging to Suzette Kelo, along with the homes of her neighbors, announced today that it is abandoning the site and consolidating operations in the nearby city of ...
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• Pfizer abandons site of infamous Kelo eminent domain taking

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  The private homes New London, Conn., took through eminent domain from Suzette Kelo and others, are torn down now, but Pfizer has just announced that it closing up shop at the research facility that led to the condemnation. Leading drugmakers Pfizer and Wyeth have merged, and as a result, are trimming some jobs. That ...
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• There goes the neighborhood...literally!

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 583
  Demolition of the buildings in Columbia Universitys expanded footprint is in full swing. The historic building housing the Hudson Moving & Storage Company (on the National Register of Historic Places - I told you that designation means nothing) is being demolished with only its facade being saved and moved to ...
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