The Kelo trial v. New London in 2005 challenged the use of eminent domain when the city of New London, Connecticut, took away many properties from owners to build a large development, which included a research center, for the giant Pfizer pharmaceutical company, high-end housing, a hotel, offices and other facilities. Once the City of New London heard from Pfizer about its research center and how it would bring hundreds of jobs and thousands of dollars in taxes to New London, the City couldn't say no. The area of ​​New London where this new development was headed “was in an area of ​​the city that had seen better days and was not very desirable”1. In the 1990s, the city of New London was in financial difficulty. But in 1998, Pfizer announced it would build its global research center in downtown New London, adjacent to the Fort Trumbull neighborhood. “This would only happen if and when the City of New London remediates the scrap yard north of the Pfizer site, brings the current wastewater treatment plant to peak condition, cleans up the old rail maintenance yard abandoned Amtrak and remediate many of the brownfields and hazards that were present on and around the site”2 This may seem like a lot of work and time for a single development, but when “the state granted New London a. $70 million grant”3 and Pfizer said they would create hundreds of jobs and thousands of dollars in taxes, New London had to do this to recover from the bad economic situation it found itself in. “To create this development, they would have to buy many properties that were on the 90-acre development. Many people sold their properties but a few did not like Susetto Kelo, Wilhelmina and Charles Dery, who lived in Ft. Trumbu...... middle 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 of Kelo V. New London Eminent Domain Case. 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 Supreme Court Decisions: Summaries of Major Cases in American Constitutional Law, 194-96: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers., 2010.