This home in New London, Conn., is one of several at the center of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling. Susette Kelo and other homeowners had refused to sell their property for what their city said was a needed private development project.
From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8331097/
Smith Street property owner Bill Von Winkle reacts to the Supreme Court eminent domain ruling that sided with the City of New London.
Susette Kelo, the owner of a house on East Street in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, fights back tears as she speaks on the phone to a supporter from the South, following the Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain that sided with the City of New London.
From here.
"Wesley Horton and Thomas Londregan, the attorneys for the city, celebrated the court decision as a vindication of the work the city's planners had done in crafting a development scheme that would benefit the public through tax dollars, jobs and a new public walkway along the river.
“This case was never about taking from one person to give to another. It was not some kind of land grab,” Londregan said. “It was about New London, its six square miles and its economic survival.”
He and Horton said it was the careful development plan that proved the city's good intentions and won over the court to their side. "
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A message to Horton and Londregan: A town that must steal property from it's rightful owners doesn't deserve to survive...