Introduction
The main issue that revolves around this case is the issue of Eminent Domain. In KELO V. CITY of New London (2005), the United States Supreme Court upheld the use of the eminent domain power to take property from homeowners for the purpose of economic development. Under the Fifth Amendment, eminent domain may be used only for a public purpose. Conversely, public purpose is a wide notion. At this point Eminent Domain refers to the authority of the government to acquire certain properties for public use, for example building a freeway. The idea dates to the early seventeenth-century; in U.S. law, underneath ...