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Connor D. Wolf The Libertarian Republic 6/24/2015 It’s been a decade since the city of New London, Conn. forcibly took the Fort Trumbull neighborhood for what became private-development, and now all that remains is an empty lot. In 1998, the area surrounding the waterfront neighborhood saw an increased surge of economic development. This prompted city […] June 24th, 2015 | Tags: Eminent Domain, Ilya Somin, Kelo v. City of New London, Susette Kelo | Category: Connecticut, Politics, Property rights, SCOTUS | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 7/6/2012 If one wanted to craft a strategy to make the home-mortgage market even less stable, increase already-unsustainable public debt, and erode private property rights even further than we have already seen, it would be hard to top a new idea from California, of all places. Two cities have fashioned a plan […] July 8th, 2012 | Tags: Eminent Domain, housing crisis, housing market, Justice David Souter, Kelo v. City of New London, mortgages, property, San Bernardino County, Susette Kelo | Category: Banking and finance, California, Communism, Fascism, Politicians, Progressives, Property rights, SCOTUS, Taxes | Comments are closed
J. D. Heyes Natural News 6/14/2012 As the federal Leviathan becomes ever larger and all-powerful, its Executive Branch tentacles reach further and further into the American fabric as it seeks to exert authority and control over more and more of our lives. The latest power-mad grab can be attributed to the not-so-illustrious Environmental Protection Agency […] June 21st, 2012 | Tags: "navigable waters", Clean Water Act (CWA), ditches, Eminent Domain, gullies, Kelo v. City of New London, Rep. Bob Gibbs, Rep. John Mica, Rep. Nick Rahall, rule of law, Sen. John Barrasso, Sen. John Cornyn, Sen. Rand Paul, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Barack Obama, Cap and Trade, Congress, Environmental Protection Agency, federal regulations, New Jersey, Progressives, Property rights, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Fox News Insider 2/29/2012 On Tuesday, the House approved legislation to overturn the 2005 Supreme Court decision that declared the ability of states to take control of private property under the doctrine of eminent domain and hand it to another private developer. Judge Andrew Napolitano talked about this issue on Your World, calling it an […] February 29th, 2012 | Tags: Eminent Domain, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Kelo v. City of New London, Susette Kelo | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, SCOTUS | Comments are closed
Damon W. Root Reason Magazine 9/19/2011 A hell of a story from The Hartford Courant’s Jeff Benedict, who was present for an extraordinary encounter between Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Richard N. Palmer and Susette Kelo, the homeowner he once voted against in the infamous eminent domain case: I had delivered the keynote address [at the […] September 19th, 2011 | Tags: Jeff Benedict, Justice Richard N. Palmer, Kelo v. City of New London, Susette Kelo | Category: Connecticut, Property rights, SCOTUS, State Supreme Court, US Constitution | Comments are closed
TBlumer BizzyBlog 4/23/2011 click for larger view of Kelo house In its infamous June 2005 Kelo vs. New London ruling, a Supreme Court majority allowed the city of New London to seize the properties of holdout homeowners in that city’s Fort Trumbull area for the “public purpose” of economic development, not a “public […] April 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Fort Trumbull, Kelo v. City of New London, New London Development Corp., River Bank Construction, Robert and Irwin Stillman, tax abatement | Category: Connecticut, Property rights, SCOTUS, Taxes, US Constitution | Comments are closed
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