Will Connecticut Finally Enact Meaningful Eminent Domain Reform?
“Some fourteen years after a controversial Supreme Court decision upheld the use of eminent domain to seize homes for transfer to private developers, the state where the case originated may finally pass a law…
Will Connecticut—Home of the Kelo Supreme Court Case—Finally End Eminent Domain Abuse?
“When the Supreme Court ruled in Kelo v. City of New London in 2005 to allow local governments to use eminent domain to seize private property and turn it over to private developers, many…
‘Little Pink House’ movie gets April release date
“The film “Little Pink House,” about the eminent domain battle in New London, is scheduled for a limited theater release on April 20, with a cinema-on-demand element. The information was reported in The Hollywood…
A Million Homes Taken Since Kelo
“It has been just over a decade since the Supreme Court decided in Kelo v. New London that local governments can take private property by eminent domain under a very broad reading of “public use”….
Experts agree: Luster is off eminent domain after U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Kelo
“Legal experts attending a conference Friday titled “Kelo: A Decade Later” concluded that eminent domain is being used less frequently today than it was when the famous U.S. Supreme Court case involving the Fort Trumbull…
TransCanada Is Seizing People’s Land To Build Keystone, But Conservatives Have Been Dead Silent
“For Julia Trigg Crawford, watching TransCanada construct the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline on a corner of her 600-acre farm was “gut-wrenching.” Crawford, who lives in Direct, Texas, had been trying since 2011…
Reevaluating Eminent Domain’s Benefits Necessary for Economic Success
“The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires government to provide “just compensation” to private individuals in return for taking private property for public use. This doesn’t address whether it is it right to take…
A possible test for Virginia’s recent constitutional amendment increasing compensation for property owners whose land is taken by the state
“The Charlottesville Daily Progress has an interesting article explaining how a new road-building project may provide the first big test for Virginia’s important 2012 constitutional amendment increasing protection for property rights, which was adopted by…
The conflict over takings and property rights in China and its parallels with that in the United States
“Chinese scholars are interested in the US debate over Kelo and economic development takings because their own government engages in similar practices on a much vaster scale. Since the last 1970s, as many as 40…
Will Little Pink House Become the Erin Brockovich of the Eminent-Domain Abuse Movement?
“Former Reason TV producer Ted Balaker and his wife Courtney Balaker are producing a movie based on the travails of Suzette Kelo, whose fight against eminent domain abuse resulted in the landmark case Kelo v….