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• Kelo v. New London Goes Down in Shame

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 500
  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 ...
  15 hours 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 ...
  15 hours ago

• 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 ...
  18 hours ago

• 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 ...
  19 hours ago

• The Ghosts of Kelo

  
  The Boring Made Dull — Authority: 112
  So, New London, Connecticut made a decision to deprive Susette Kelo and others of their property for the immense public benefit of a new Pfizer research facility promising “jobs”. Now Pfizer is closing up shop ; the promised facility was never built, and New London is left with a wasteland and a justly ...
  1 day ago

• Pfizer to Close Facility Behind Kelo Case

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 641
  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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• The Public Uselessness of Crony Capitalism

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  The Washington Examiner ’s Tim Carney points to news from The Hartford Courant that the development project at the center of the Fifth Amendment takings clause case Kelo v. City of New London has just been abandoned by Pfizer. Watch The CATO Institute’s recitation of the case: Click here to view the embedded ...
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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 ...
  1 day ago

• 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 ...
  1 day ago

• Pfizer to Abandon Land Taken for Them by Big Brother

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 149
  Pfizer Corporation Plans to Abandon New London Headquarters that Led to the Kelo Takings by Ilya Somin11/9/09The 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 ...
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• So Where Does Ms. Kelo Go To Get Her Home Back?

  
  QandO — Authority: 140
  I ‘m sure she’d appreciate it given how hard she fought to save it.  But alas it is no longer there.  In one of the biggest “Constitutional” travesties in my lifetime, the Supreme Court sided with the city of New London to essentially give the property to a private concern which had promised to “lure ...
  1 day ago

• 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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• 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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• Shame as a commodity

  
  Kayak2U — Authority: 430
  There’s a super tanker full of the stuff waiting at the mouth of the Thames River for delivery to the New London, Connecticut, city council .  Will anyone take delivery?
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• Pfizer not going to need those New London homes seized, after all.

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• 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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• After Forcibly and Illegally Removing The Legitimate Landowners

  
  United Conservatives of Virginia — Authority: 487
  Pfizer abandons site of infamous Kelo eminent domain taking By: Timothy P. Carney Examiner Columnist 11/09/09 1:47 PM EST 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 ...
  2 days ago

• Taking Land for Public Uselessness

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  Over at the Washington Examiner , Tim Carney reports that Pfizer is abandoning its New London offices and deciding what to do with the property it gained in the infamous Kelo v. New London land-grab: The private homes that New London, Conn., took away from Suzette Kelo and her neighbors have been torn down. ...
  2 days ago

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