The 2005 court case Kelo v. New London challenged the use of eminent domain when the city of New London, Connecticut, seized property from homeowners to build a large complex, including a research center for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, luxury housing, a hotel, office space and other facilities. Once the city of New London got Pfizer's word on its research facility and how it will bring hundreds of jobs and thousands of dollars in taxes to New London, the city couldn't say no. The area of ​​New London in which this new development took place “was in an area of ​​the city that had seen better days and was not highly sought after”1. In the 1990s the city of New London was in financial trouble. But in 1998, Pfizer announced that it would build its global research facility in downtown New London, adjacent to the Fort Trumbull neighborhood. “This would only happen if and when the city of New London cleaned up the landfill north of the Pfizer site, brought the existing wastewater treatment plant to state-of-the-art status, cleaned up the old abandoned Amtrak train maintenance depot and remediate many of the brownfields and hazards in and around the site.”2 It might seem like a lot of work and time for one intervention, but when “the State awarded New London a $70 million grant”3 and Pfizer said they would bring hundreds of jobs and thousands of dollars in taxes, New London had to do it to recover from the poor economic situation it was in. Many people sold their properties but some didn't like Susetto Kelo, Wilhelmina and Charles Dery, who lived at Fort Trumbu...... center of paper...... Case." About.com Civil Liberties. Accessed December 17, 2013. http://civilliberty.about.com/od/freetradeopenmarkets/p/kelovlondon.htm.Trachtman, Michael G. “Chapter 25 Kelo vs. New London In The Supremes’ Greatest Hits: The 37. " Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life, 121-24 New York, NY: Sterling, 2009. United States International Economic Development Council Review by Kelo V. New London Court Case by Jeff Finkle. Accessed November 18, 2013. http://ehis.ebscohost.com/eds/detail?vid=3&sid=3e197463-a2a1-423c-9271-f37804d01d7e%40sessionmgr198&hid=101&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#db=mih&AN = 32Y0878313147.Vile , John R. and Joseph Francis Menez. "Chapter 7." In Essential Decisions of the Supreme Court: Summaries of Major Cases in United States Constitutional Law, 194-96: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.