SCOTUS has refused to revisit the recent Kelo decision:
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to reconsider one of its most controversial rulings of the 2004-05 term: a 5-4 decision upholding a Connecticut city’s use of eminent domain to acquire private property for a redevelopment plan anchored by a private business.
The order denying a rehearing did not come as a surprise because the court seldom reconsiders one of its decisions. But few rulings have provoked such public outrage as the court’s June 23 decision in Kelo v. New London.
In that case, the court held that New London, which had been designated a distressed municipality, could acquire the property of Susette Kelo and eight other residents of the city’s Fort Trumbull neighborhood and use the land for an elaborate development surrounding a $300 million Pfizer pharmaceutical company research facility.
In other Kelo news, the folks at Q and O are about as thrilled with the recent antics of New London city leaders as I was last week.