WEARE, N.H. (AP) — Residents on Saturday rejected a proposal to evict U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter from his farmhouse to make way for the “Lost Liberty Hotel.”
A group angered by last year’s court decision that gave local governments more power to seize people’s homes for economic development had petitioned to use the ruling against the justice.
On the positive side, the bid to take Souter’s property was replaced with a call to strengthen New Hampshire’s eminent domain laws in favor of individuals.