As I stated before, few events in the last 25 years have prompted a national uproar over a specifically libertarian issue. Fewer still have produced as much outrage as the Supreme Court's ruling in Kelo v. City of New London. By a vote of 5 to 4, the Court declared that the Connecticut city and its quasi-governmental development corporation could take the well-maintained homes and businesses of people in the city's Fort Trumbull neighborhood to make room for an expansion by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
So what has happened since this decision? Well, the city has given the owners the wonderful gift of charging them back rent on their own property.
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