Last Stand for Property-rights Activists?

9 June 2006 - 1:00pm

A year after high court's key decision, New London, Conn., voted to evict homeowners.

"Seven longtime residents of the city's Fort Trumbull neighborhood took their battle to save their homes all the way to the US Supreme Court. Now, nearly a year after the high court upheld the city's eminent domain power in a controversial 5-to-4 decision, two families are still fighting eviction. Efforts to negotiate a compromise appear to have ended.

...On Monday, the New London City Council voted 5 to 2 to authorize the city attorney to obtain a court order to seize and demolish the homes of Susette Kelo and Michael Cristofaro."

Source: The Christian Science Monitor, June 8, 2006
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