Voters Decline to Take Justice Souter's House

Voters in Weare rejected a proposal to evict U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter from his farmhouse to make way for a "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.

But voters deciding which issues should go on the town's March ballot replaced the group's proposal with a call to strengthen New Hampshire's law on eminent domain.

Souter, who grew up in Weare, a central New Hampshire town of 8,500, has not commented on the matter.