Kelo vs New London, CT
The following amicus briefs have been filed with the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of Kelo vs the City of New London, CT which will be heard at 10:00 AM EST on February 22, 2005. This is a landmark case testing the limits of eminent domain as to whether the government can take property from an individual or group of individuals and give it to another group for economic gain.
- Institute for Justice brief on behalf of New London homeowners
- Urban Sociologist Jane Jacobs, Author of Death and Life of Great American Cities
- NAACP, AARP, et al.
- American Farm Bureau Federation, et al.
- National Association of Homebuilders & National Association of Realtors
- John Norquist, President, Congress for New Urbanism
- Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
- 13 Noted Property Law Professors
- Property Rights Foundation of America
- Richard Epstein & the Cato Institute
- Better Government Association & Other Community Groups
- Claremont Institute
- Pacific Legal Foundation & Property Owners Battling Eminent Domain Abuse
- Goldwater Institute, et al.
- Cascade Policy Institute, et al.
- Reason Foundation
- New London Landmarks, Inc. & Coalition to Save Fort Trumbull
- Develop Don’t Destroy (Brooklyn), Inc., et al.
- New Jersey Property Owners Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse
- Texas Property Owners Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse
- Pennsylvania Property Owners Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse
- Mountain States Legal Foundation, et al.
- New London R.R. Co., Inc.
- Hawaii Property Owners Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse
- Tidewater Libertarian Party
- Rutherford Institute