Take Life, but Not My House
5th Sep 2005, 16:31 GMT
The city of New London, Conn., narrowly (5 to 4) won the right last month from the Supreme Court to condemn a parcel of land in a distressed part of the town to make way for economic development. The ruling has generated a tsunami of objection and an effort in many states and localities to have its effects undone -- including, for spite, a quixotic attempt to condemn Justice David H. Souter's New Hampshire farmhouse and turn it into a hotel. Thank you. I'd prefer the Bates Motel.