WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2009

6:30PM - 8:30PM

New London High School

490 Jefferson Avenue
New London, CT

You've read the book about the Fort Trumbull property owners' fight over eminent domain, you've followed the news stories about the city's ultimate victory in the U.S. Supreme Court and you've thought about who would play whom in a movie version of the saga. Now it's time to talk about it.

The Day is hosting a forum 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. March 4 to discuss “Eminent Domain: Lessons Learned From the Fight Over the Little Pink House.” The free-flowing discussion will be held at New London High School. The Day's editorial page editor, Paul Choiniere, will moderate the discussion and field questions from the audience.

Panelists are Jeff Benedict, author of “Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage”; Susette Kelo, lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case; New London Law Director Thomas Londregan; Dana Berliner, an attorney with the Institute for Justice, which represented the property owners; and Beth Sabilia, former New London mayor.

"Oh, Gosh!
I hope I get there in time
to get a seat up in front!"

Lily Jacqueline Kennedy

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Michael Joplin
President NLDC

LITTLE PINK HOUSE by JEFF BENEDICT

"This is my house
That you did take..."

"I guess it comes down to whose ox is being gored. If your city or town came after your property in order to give
it to another private
individual you'd be in an uproar also. And, if you had any brains at all, you'd hold out for the maximum compensation
possible. I know that I would. And, if Ihad to depend on the Institute for Justice to get it for me, I'd go along with
about those people in the Fort. They were expendable."

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LINKS AND REVIEWS

Book Review: '

Little Pink House'
Relates Eminent Domain Injustice

Susette Kelo
Tells Her Story

At

The Cato
Institute

Video

Evicted
But Not Without
A Fight

Book Review

Wall Street Journal

Leah Beyer
Leah is deeply missed

Rich Beyer

Author Jeff Benedict speaks at the Y's Men of Westport/Weston an organization of about 425 retired and semi-retired men.

Photo by Larry Untermeyer

Plaintiffs

Byron Athenian

son of Thelma Breletsky
Plaintiff
Lost his home And his business

Michael Cristofaro
son & representative of
Margherita & Pasquale Christofaro
Plaintiffs

Take a look at this

Amazon.com

Susette Kelo Plaintiff

Rich Beyer - Plaintiff

Matt Dery Son of Plaintiffs
Wilhelmina and Charles Dery

James Guretsky
Laura and James Plaintiffs

Bill von Winkle - Plaintiff

THE BUZZ, THE BOOK
THE BATTLE

"...If the seven holdout
property owners in the
former Fort Trumbull
neighborhood ever doubted
the support they believed
they deserved in their failed
fight to keep their homes -
they have it today. Even
before Benedict's book,
Fort Trumbull was a
rallying cry for eminent
domain abuse.

And now, with the book
being featured on ABC's 20/20,
in the February issue of Ladies
Home Journal, and on the Glenn
Beck radio show, never mind the
buzz ambassadors, New London
will forever be known as the city
that bulldozed homes to create a
vacant brownfield..."

The Day