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October 21, 2011
Scalia Lumps Kelo Decision with Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade
ABA Journal
by Debra Cassens Weiss
From the department of too little, too late — at least where Atlantic Yards is concerned.
Justice Antonin Scalia predicted Monday that the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London will be overturned.
Speaking to students at the Chicago-Kent School of Law, Scalia criticized the decision allowing the city of New London to use eminent domain to seize property for economic development, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. “I do not think that the Kelo opinion is long for this world,” Scalia said.
Long enough for Bruce Ratner, however.
Scalia ranked Kelo among the top cases in which the court made a mistake of political judgment, according to the Sun-Times account.
Posted by eric at October 21, 2011 12:13 PM