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• The End Of The Kelo Story

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 440
  The lots are now just weeds . Doesn’t that make you feel great? And aren’t you glad that the politicians that support eminent domain are the ones in power? Posted in Politics Tagged: Eminent Domain, Government, Kelo vs. New London
  5 hours ago

• What Happened To The Kelo House?

  
  Tarpon's Swamp — Authority: 479
  Government gone bad, house and home gone for good — Read about it here : The lot where the Kelo house used to be, as the grandiose plans of government gone wild, went bust. While not Obama’s fault, his reasoning is the same, that lead to this travesty. How is that hopey and changey thing working out for you.
  7 hours ago

• Asleep in Connecticut

  
  gary-weiss.com — Authority: 543
  My very first job was at the Hartford Courants Groton-New London bureau, so I had a very personal interest in the front page New York Times story the other day on how New London was royally screwed by Pfizer--pulling out of a redevelopment project after the city fought up to the Supreme Court, in Kelo vs. New ...
  7 hours ago

• Friday Eminent Domain Round-Up

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 123
  Heres what weve been reading today: A Turning Point for Eminent Domain? - The NY Times "Room for Debate" forum posts the thoughts of six property law experts on the meaning of Pfizers decision to close its research headquarters in New London, Connecticut. New London, of course, was the epicenter of the public ...
  20 hours ago

• Supreme Court has just been proven brilliant in regards to Kelo Decision

  
  Blogatize Blog Network — Authority: 155
  Not really. Recent developments in New London, Conn. have actually proven how idiotic the judges in the majority were when they ruled that New London could exercise Eminent Domain to take away private property and then give it to a developer in an attempt to increase tax revenues. In the Kelo decision, the 5 panel ...
  21 hours ago

• I Was Trying To Think Up Some Pithy Way To Summarize The Latest Post-Kelo Developments

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 143
  But there is no way to beat Alex Tabarrok’s summing up . Well played, sir. Well played. I guess the only thing I can really add is that Clarence Thomas appears to have been vindicated .
  22 hours ago

• WTF: Kelo Revisited

  
  voluntaryXchange — Authority: 133
  In Kelo the Supreme Court decided that the government can take your house away if they might be able to increase tax revenues from a new owner. As it turns out, this was wishful thinking. The city of New London did take Susette Kelo’s house away, and the proposed development crapped out . Posts about ...
  23 hours ago

• NY Times Blog Discussion on the Implications of Pfizer’s Decision to Abandon its New London Facility Near the Site of the Kelo Takings

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 765
  The New York Times Room for Debate blog has a forum on the implications of Pfizer’s decision to abandon its New London headquarters . Pfizer and its New London facility had previously played a key role in instigating the condemnations that led to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the use of eminent ...
  1 day ago

• Those Scummy Monsters at Pfizer Not Only Destroy Entire Cities, They Also Cheat on their Own Drug Studies

  
  The Awl — Authority: 700
  What happens when Pfizer doesn’t like the test results it gets for a new epilepsy drug? You conceal the evidence—says the New England Journal of Medicine , which is schooling those schmucks hard . This has been a terrible year for Pfizer, but not terrible enough, because they still exist. But what happened to ...
  1 day ago

• Nevermind all that.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  After the 2005 Kelo ( previously ) decision, granting the city of New London, CT the right to seize dozens of homes to make way for a luxury development including a hotel, stores, and condominiums next to a Pfizer research facility. The Kelo House itself was spared - moved to another part of town. The rest were ...
  1 day ago

• Opening Brief In Kona Eminent Domain Abuse Case: Pretext, Actual Purposes, And Private Benefit

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 123
  Today, we filed the Opening Brief in the latest phase of County of Hawaii v. C&J Coupe Family Ltd. Pship , two condemnation cases arising out of the County of Hawaiis attempts to take a Kona familys property. This brief addresses several issues, but the most critical involve pretext and public purpose, ...
  1 day ago

• Pfizer to Leave City That Won Supreme Court Land-Use Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  Susette Kelos house, a landmark of sorts, was moved from the Fort Trumbull neighborhood that was seized by New London. Ms. Kelo was the losing plaintiff in a 5-to-4 Supreme Court decision.
  1 day ago

• A Turning Point for Eminent Domain?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  Pfizer leaves New London, Conn., in the lurch.
  1 day ago

• A Turning Point for Eminent Domain?

  
  Room for Debate — Authority: 700
  Pfizer leaves New London, Conn., in the lurch.
  2 days ago

• Kelo revisited

  
  LyfLines — Authority: 137
  Like many others, I ranted and raved about the Supreme Courts judicial obscenity decision in Kelo vs. New London. It was an offense to the Constitution and everything for which it should stand. Well, the whole process has become, if possible, even more obscene. ...four years after that decision gave ...
  2 days ago

• Kelo Decision: Still the Worst Decision. Ever. The Reason for it is Moving Out.

  
  VICTORIA TAFT — Authority: 145
  The "takings" clause of the 5th Amendment to the US Constitution reads, "Private property shall NOT be taken for a public use without just compensation."The "public use" became "private" under Kelo in an expansion of the governments ability to use eminent domain. Read below from the WSJ on the comments at the time ...
  3 days ago

• The government takes what it wants

  
  The Real Revo — Authority: 489
  In 2005 in the case of Kelo v New London, the Supreme Court ruled that government can use eminent domain to seize private property, not just for the use of the state, but to hand it over to other private entities. Governments may do this, the court ruled, for reasons no more compelling than that the new owners will ...
  3 days ago

• Kelo v. New London Goes Down in Shame

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 519
  An entire neighborhood was razed to make room for a new Pfizer plant. This was done with the approval of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, doing their absolute best to read the Constitution contrary to its plain meaning. Now Pfizer has abandoned its plans. A community was destroyed and great ...
  3 days ago

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

  
  American Elephants — Authority: 431
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• More on the Implications of Pfizer’s Decision to Close Down its New London Headquarters

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 765
  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 ...
  3 days ago

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