Debating the original meaning of “public use”
“At the Originalism Blog, University of San Diego law professor Michael Ramsey has some thoughtful commentary on a recent presentation I gave on the original meaning of public use, which was based on a chapter…
New London, Conn. Columnist: ‘Not a Single Thing’ Done in Almost 9 Years Since Kelo Decision ‘Is Not That Compelling’
“In a column supposedly published on Sunday but “updated” on Saturday (I’m not kidding), Collins assessed the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s odious Kelo v. New London decision in 2005 in reacting to a lengthy…
Lessons from Kelo, the Eminent Domain Case That Wiped Out a Neighborhood
“In its 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Connecticut municipality to forcibly condemn multiple private properties in a well-tended working-class neighborhood in order to clear space…
Damon Root on Lessons from Kelo, the Eminent Domain Case That Wiped Out a Neighborhood
“The latest issue of The Weekly Standard describes the Supreme Court’s 2005 eminent domain ruling in Kelo v. City of New London as “a tragedy with all the classical Greek elements: hubris, turn of fortune,…
Nine Years after Kelo, the Seized Land Is Empty
“Nine years after the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision gutted the right of American property owners to resist eminent-domain seizures, the neighborhood at the center of the case remains a wasteland. Fort Trumbull in New London,…
Supreme Court Justice Scalia Talks Eminent Domain, Internment Camps
“On the one hand, he said he has “no doubt” the court will eventually overturn a 2005 ruling that let the City of New London take Susette Kelo’s property using eminent domain and transfer it…
PROPERTIES WERE SEIZED AND A NEIGHBORHOOD RAZED IN THE NAME OF ‘ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT’ THAT NEVER CAME
“”See that pole with the transformer hanging from it?” Michael Cristofaro asked me. “That was where my family’s home was.” I looked up at a line of high telephone poles marching diagonally against a blanched…
City uses eminent domain to save downtown Providence building
“A dilapidated downtown building torn apart by fire and neglect has a future as more than a parking space because the Taveras administration was willing to employ a rarely used but often controversial legal tactic…
SURPRISE TWIST IN FAMOUS EMINENT-DOMAIN CASE
“Somin, whose research focuses on constitutional and property law, noted several previous proposed uses for the condemned property have failed to pan out. “It is hard to say whether Mayor Finizio’s idea will prove any…
Mayor Finizio falls short on a big promise
“In the world of broken campaign promises, I would have to put Mayor Daryl Finizio’s unfulfilled pledge to abolish the New London Development Corp. right up there on a top shelf. To recall the disdain…