Hello from Connecticut: 9 Year Anniversary of Kelo Decision
“This week marks the nine-year anniversary of the Kelo v. City of New London decision. Since I’ve been practicing as an eminent domain attorney, Kelo is unquestionably the most well-known and stirring court opinion, creating…
Culture can help tame eminent domain abuse
“The Constitution once limited how governments could use eminent domain, but post-Kelo, that’s no longer the case. Officials routinely lock arms with corporations or billionaires to forcibly transfer property from one private owner to another,…
A success from the ashes of eminent domain
“A Hispanic Baptist church in New London may be one of the few winners to have come out of the destruction of Fort Trumbull by eminent domain. And, curiously, the church’s success in the wake…
A resurgence of eminent domain abuse
“The Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which allowed state and local governments to take private property and transfer it to other private owners to promote “economic development” generated a…
9 years after SCOTUS’ Kelo ruling, houses seized under eminent domain remain undeveloped
“According to a report by Jeff Jacoby for the Boston Globe, the homes belonged to people like “Susette Kelo, a local nurse who bought her little Victorian cottage on the Thames River because she loved…
Seized property sits vacant nine years after landmark Kelo eminent domain case
“Nine years after the high court sided with a Connecticut municipality in Kelo v. City of New London, a ruling Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has likened to the court’s disastrous Dred Scott decision, the 90-acre…
Homeowners in Connecticut town were dispossessed for nothing
“Nearly nine years have elapsed since the US Supreme Court, in one of its most notorious rulings, decided that seven homeowners in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New London, Conn., had no property rights which…
Devastation caused by eminent-domain abuse
“NEARLY NINE years have elapsed since the US Supreme Court, in one of its most notorious rulings, decided that seven homeowners in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New London, Conn., had no property rights which…
House Passage of the Private Property Rights Protection Act Puts a Limit on Eminent Domain
“Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner: “As part of “Stop Government Abuse Week,” I am pleased that the House once again voted to protect Americans’ private property rights and curtail the abuse of eminent domain. While most Americans…
Bipartisan Vote Curtails Eminent Domain Abuse
“States and localities that abuse eminent domain powers would be denied federal economic development funds for two years under legislation approved Wednesday by House lawmakers. The bill easily passed the Republican-controlled House on a vote…