A Mississippi town declared multi-generational homes in a historic black neighborhood "blighted" as a pretext to seize them through eminent domain, a new lawsuit claims.
The Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning public interest law firm, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday on behalf of several residents of Ocean Springs, who say the small town abused Mississippi's urban renewal laws to brand their close-knit neighborhood, where generations of families have lived, a blighted slum.
