Remember the June 2005 Supreme Court eminent domain ruling that gave Pfizer Pharmaceutical the right to bulldoze a housing neighborhood in Connecticut to make way for a $300 million private development project? Some of the homeowners didn't want to give up their homes but Pfizer took them to court and won.
Last week Pfizer said it was shutting down its center.
This Democracy Now video has interviews with a former homeowner and a lawyer who represented the homeowners who wanted to keep their homes.
From Seth Roberts' Blog:
One of the last things Jane Jacobs wrote was a friend-of-the-court letter in the Supreme Court case Kelo v. New London where eminent domain was used to take property from private landowners and give it to a private corporation (Pfizer). It was just as outrageous as that sounds. And Pfizer got away with it.
Pfizer, After Having Its Way with the Good Citizens of New London …
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