If you were boarding the plane with only 10 minutes top spare then Delta had every right to re-assign your seats:
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Check-in Requirements from U.S. Cities, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
You must be at the boarding gate at least 15 minutes before your scheduled departure time.
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Originally Posted by MoW2199
We didn't have time to complain about not having our paid-for seats because it was the LAST FLIGHT out of Atlanta to our destination.
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You had seats on that flight. You got your "paid-for seats." When you buy airline tickets you are not buying specific seats. Seat assignments can and do change for a variety of reasons. Perhaps there was a parent and child who were separated but because you were late were given your original seat assignments so you could sit together. Any airline who pre-assigns seats will try t honor those assignments but sometimes it's just not possible. If that's a major problem for you then stick to Southwest where nobody has an assigned seat.