Remember Kelo v. City of New London?

[solarbird]

Remember Kelo v. City of New London, where the city of New London, Connecticut decided to use eminent domain to take a neighbourhood and give it to a real-estate developer? It went to the Supreme Court in 2005, and the Supreme Court ruled this was just fine. I railed about it.

Anyway, "four years after that decision gave Susette Kelo's land to private developers for a project including a hotel and offices intended to enhance Pfizer Inc.'s nearby corporate facility, the pharmaceutical giant has announced it will close its research and development headquarters in New London, Connecticut." The former neighbourhood is still a bulldozed wreck. Awesome, is it not?

Comments

[maellenkleth]

Hrf. That decision was not at all popular in the Groton/New London area, and it led to other egregrious abuses of eminent domain: houses expropriated so that a Mickey D's could be built, and the like.

Rule of law? Oh, that must be something from the previous millenium...

a nail in the coffin?

[mejeep.livejournal.com]

I hope that helps the NYC folks fighting a developer who's claiming that luxury condos is "good for the community" as economic development:
http://www.developdontdestroy.org/

[rmd.livejournal.com]

FUCK. YOU. SCALIA.

[solarbird]

Um, sorry, no. Scalia voted against, joining Justice Sandra Day O'Conner's dissenting opinion. Also voting no were Chief Justice Rhenquist and Justice Thomas. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

you're right. i had conflated him with stevens for some reason.

HAI I'M DUMMB.

[avram]

Scalia was one of the dissenters on Kelo v New London.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

you're right. i had a moment of extreme flakiness.

[mikec1157.livejournal.com]

So, maybe we need to condem Pfizer Inc.

[solarbird]

TOO BIG TO FAIL


or something idk what