Monday, November 21, 2005
New York Times Updates Eminent Domain Fight
William Yardley sums up the situation in New London, Connecticut this way:
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They have still not moved out. Not Susette Kelo. Not the Derys. Not Byron Athenian or Bill Von Winkle or the others.And, as Mr. Yardley explains later in the story, this lack of progress comes after the state has already spent 73 million dollars in public money on the project.
Five months after the United States Supreme Court set off a national debate by ruling that the City of New London could seize their property through eminent domain to make way for new private development, no one has been forced to leave.
Even though the holdouts lost their case, and the development that would displace them finally seems free to go forward, construction has not begun, and some elements of the project have been effectively paralyzed since the court ruling prompted a political outcry.
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