Bloomfield Renews Eminent Domain Effort
“The town has notified the new owner of 30 Southwood Road that it is interested in acquiring the property, and is willing to do so through eminent domain if necessary. This time the town has…
Terms Of Eminent Domain Claim Unfair
“The town of Bloomfield is attempting to claim seven acres of land previously owned by Harry Sawyer through eminent domain [May 26, Connecticut, “Town’s Eminent Domain Push Stalled”]. A primary legal requirement for such a…
Lacking Town Attorney, Bloomfield Delays Eminent Domain Discussion
“The town council Tuesday listened in silence as a half dozen supporters of Harry Sawyer took to the microphone again to criticize them for their effort to take seven acres he owned by eminent domain….
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…
Man Short-Circuits Bloomfield Eminent Domain Proceedings — For Now
“Harry Sawyer is hotly opposed to the town’s decision to take his property by eminent domain, so much so that instead of taking the town’s offer, he sold the property for $1. Sawyer bought 7…
State Takes Family’s Land To Build Highway, But Won’t Return It After Road Project Dies
“By the force of its eminent domain authority, the state Department of Transportation took 11.3 acres from an Andover couple 27 years ago for construction of the then-planned Route 6 expressway from Bolton to Windham….
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…