From today’s New York Times:
NEW LONDON, Conn. – They have still not moved out. Not Susette Kelo. Not the Derys. Not Byron Athenian or Bill Von Winkle or the others.
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.
Read the whole thing here.
More evidence that the backlash against the Kelo v. New London decision may have done as much to stop eminent domain abuse than if the Supreme Court had ruled in favor of the property owners.