Can the Government Force You Out of Your House? | Kelo v. New London
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New London, Connecticut
1997
Susette (Suzette) Kelo drives by a run down house along the Thames (Tames) River that has been for sale for awhile. Even though the house is run down, she falls in love with it and buys it. She spends months completely renovating the 107-year old Victorian-style cottage, painting it pink. The house had a great view of the water, and was in a working-class neighborhood called Fort Trumbull. Unfortunately, the neighborhood had been in decline for years, as there were few decent paying jobs nearby. But Susette didn’t care. She loved her little pink house and its view of the harbor. She soon met a dude named Tim LeBlanc, who helped her do exterior work on the house. Eventually the two would get married and live there together.
But then, in January 1998, real estate agents began knocking on her door, offering lots of money to buy her house on behalf of “an unnamed buyer.” Kelo was suspicious, and turned down all offers. However, agents began to tell her if she didn’t sell her house, she would be forced out of her home by the city due to something called “eminent domain.” Eminent domain, you say? What the heck is that?
Eminent domain is the right for a government to just take private property for public use. In other words, if the government thinks it is in the best interest of all its citizens, it can kick you out of your house. Both the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution say the government can use eminent domain, but it just requires “just compensation.”
Susette Kelo didn’t care how much money New London was offering her. She loved her little pink house, and wasn’t going anywhere. Neither were 14 other Fort Trumbull residents. They decided to fight. Wait a second, why was New London trying to kick them out?
Well Pfizer, a multinational pharmaceutical corporation, was opening a new facility in New London, right next to the Fort Trumbull neighborhood. Part of the deal were plans to “fix up” Fort Trumbull, including building a new hotel, conference center, and fancy housing for the scientists working at Pfizer. This would require major government help. $73 million in help. Yep, the state of Connecticut would pitch in $73 million to kick out the Fort Trumbull residents, demolish their homes, and update the area with new roads and utilities.
Once Kelo and the other Fort Trumbull residents who didn’t want to leave their homes found out about this, they sued the city. Meanwhile, an organization called the New London Development Corporation, or NLDC, was already demolishing homes. By the time of the trial, which went to the New London Superior Court in July 2001, the NLDC already had acquired around 80 buildings and destroyed most of them.
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I understand the need eminent domain for public use, building public schools or public hospitals...but for eminent domain to be used as past to what amounts to a subsidy for a private business, that's corruption.
The time before everyone know who Pfizer were
Easily one of the worst decisions of modern times
I thought it was ironic that after the case, a consortium, in protest of the decision, decided to ask a New Hampshire county to seize the home of justice David Souter for development of a strip mall.
If the city had written in a clause saying that Pfizer couldn't shut down the plant for at least 20 years or so or get fined then I would agree with the ruling...but they didn't.
I was like "what a coincidence that two unrelated channels choose the same topic at the same time!"
Thanks for the collab! I hope these videos are put to public use and we receive our just compensation. :)
Holy Duck, they broke down an entire neighborhood and kicked out the inhabitants to redevelop, but they never redeveloped? Jezus Christmas 🎄, what the hell man! This is pure injustice.
They violated her Third Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment!
Eminent Domain: Great idea, horribly open for abuse.
I've got to side with the dissent on this one. Kicking people out of their houses to make accommodation for a private company's staff does not fit my definition of "public use". Then low and behold the company abandons the project! Not right.
Wow, a woman who took on corporate companies, and lost the battle but not the war. Amazing how people can take on corporate companies and win. But the way, Mr. Beat, your channel does not suck.
Eminent domain should be very limited with huge studies to show how the public would benefit. The Supreme court has made a lot of missteps during its hisory. Glad cities and states did something to correct this one.
The supreme court briefs are the best thing on this channel, I've watched every single one.
It was utterly ridiculous. I still walk by there. It has had little to no development at all, just vacant lots.
This happened to me when I was in the third grade. The city council wanted to replace 5 downtown houses with a parking lot. The houses were in perfect condition. I lived in one of those houses. There was an empty field a block away, but the city council wanted the parking lot in a very specific location. The people on my block collected signatures to try to save the houses. The people next door to us were an older couple with a little white dog. I don’t know what happened to them. Our house had a semicircular breakfast nook and a big backyard. I still miss the house.
Eminent domain should only be used for things like, roads, railways, pipelines, transmission lines, dams, schools, and parks. Private development is definitely not right.
it wan't controversial, it was universally condemned
they is a 1997 Australia film called "the Castle". is about a working-class family who lives next to Melbourne airport. When the airport wants to put in a mail centre and plan to knot down the family home to it. The family go through the count to keed the home and the poolroom.