Flemming L. Norcott Jr.[1] (born October 11, 1943) is a former Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
The Court ruled that the state had an affirmative obligation to provide Connecticut's school children with a substantially equal educational opportunity and that this constitutionally guaranteed right encompasses the access to a public education which is not substantially and materially impaired by racial and ethnic isolation.
Justice Norcott authored the majority opinion in the controversial 2004 Kelo v. New London case related to eminent domain.
On October 10, 2008, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health that gay and lesbian couples could not be denied the right to marry because of the Equal Protection Clause of the state constitution.
Most recently, Justice Norcott wrote the Court's opinion in Bysiewicz v. DiNardo, holding that Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz did not fulfill the statutory prerequisite of 10 years of service as an attorney to run for Attorney General.