Create a writing response for the case study. The response should be 500 to 1,000 words, should include the moral theory of Utilitarianism, and should have clarity in the argumentation. Do not solely mention the moral theory, give an argument on why utilitarians should agree with you.

CASE 3.1 Eminent Domain SUSETTE KELOS NONDESCRIPT, PINK CLAPBOARD house sits above the Thames River in the Fort Trumbul area of New London, Connecticut. It's surrounded by vacant lots where neighbors ont lived. One by one, these neighbors have left, and their homes have been razed. Their property has been taken over by the City of New London, which has used its power of eminent domain to clear the land where dozens of homes once stood in order to prepare the way for new development Eminent domain is the ancient right of government to take property from an Individual without consent for the common goodor example, to build a highway, an airport, a dam, ora hospital. The US. Constitution recognizes that night, permitting private property to be taken for public use as long as "just.com pensation is paid. In this case, however, New London is taking land from one private party and giving it to another. By tearing down Susette Kelo's old neighborhood, the city hopes to attract new development, which in turn will help revitalize the com munity and bring in more tax revenue. This isn't for the public good." says Kelo, a nurse who works three jobs. "The public good is a firehouse or a school, not a hotel and a sports club." Connecticut officially designates New London a blighted area. When the Navy moved its Undersea Warfare Center away from New London, taking 1.400 jobs with it, the city's already high rate of unemployment only got worse. Much of its hous- ing stock is old and second-rate. The Fort Trumbull area, in particular, is--or was, anyway--a rather gritty neighborhood, where earlier generations of immigrants struggled to get a start But New London saw a chance to turn things around when the pharmaceutical company Pfizer built a $350 million research center along the river below historic Fort Trumbull. Since then, city and state governments have created a park around the fort, cleaned up the Navy's old asbestos-laden site, and opened the riverfront to public access Now the city wants to build a hotel office buildings, and new homes to to the riverfront blocks around Fort Trumbull. And it's not talking about new homes for people like Susette Kolo "We need to get housing at the upper end, for people like the Pfer employees." says Ed O'Connell, the lower for the New London Development Corporation, which is in charge of the city's redevelopment efforts. They are the professionals they are the ones with the expertise and the leadership qualities to remake the city--the young urban professionals who wa invest in New London, put their kids in school and think of this as a place to stay for 20 of 30 years. And housing developers want open space to work with they don't want to build around a few old properties like Ms. Kelo's and that of her neighbors Wilhelmina and Charles Dery Age 87 and 85, respectively, they live in the house Wibelmina was born in the city is willing to pay a fair price for their home, but it's not an issue of money. "We get this all the time," says her son Matt. How much did they offer? What will it take? My parents don't want to wake up rich tomorrow. They just want to wake up in their own home." Unfortunately for the Derys, in 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the oty's condemnation rights in a close, 5-to-4 dech sion, it ruled that compulsory purchase to foster economic developmentals under public use and is thus constitutionally permissible. "Promoting economic development is a traditional and long accepted function of government, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority. Intended to increase jobs and tax revenues, New London's plan unquestionably serves a public purpose in her dissenting opinion, however, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor objected. "Under the banner of economic devel- opment, all private property is now vulnerable to being taken and transferred to another private owner, so long as it might be 130 PART ONE MORALPH upgraded Nothing is to prevent stille on gay Mete At Carton, any home whathaping mat or any tim tha factory The Supreme Court's decision the the date were down back to the states and local come Athough many otestave sucos edement domain to build decayed urban areas of fark economic growth, resistance to Pasiented with political and legal antes being fought for beyond Suite Kelo's home in New London For sample. In Hand Park, New Jersey the owners of a photography studio worry that a plan to redevelop the street will force them out of the bcation they ve occupied for twenty five years in Port Chester, New York a state development agency wants the site of a small furniture plant for a parking lot for Home Depot and its owners are resisting And in Salina, New York, twenty-ninetetle businesses with rames like Butch's Automotive and Transmission, Syracuse Crank and Machine Ganels Sausage, and Petersen Plumbing--are battling local government's use of eminent domain to pave the way for Destins proposed 325-acre, $2.67 bilion research-and- development park NOT FOR SALE www.org to do so. Now the mayor of Richmond, Gayle McLaughin, to use the city's power of eminent domain to buy properties with shaky mortgages and restructure the loans, thus rest equity to homeowners and keeping them from delating Sy argues that preventing foreclosures and the light of a Susette Kelo challenged the city of New London's use of eminent Like New London, Salina desperately needs domain big ideas and big development, and it may not get another chance soon. But is tearing down these businesses fair? 'We're here." says Philip Jokes Johnson, who owns Solvents & Petroleum Service, one of the leaving many neighborhoods blighted with vacant and a twenty-nine businesses in question, "We pay our taxes. We build doned properties. With real estate worth half of what it companies and run them without tax treaks." Brian Osborne, in 2006, 28 percent of Richmond's homeowners are under another owner, adds "Everything I and my family have worked water meaning that they owe more on their mortgages for over the past 25 years is at stake because of the way eml- their homes are worth on average, about 45 percent mot nent domain is being used in this state and across the country, Neither the government or the investors who own the more loans have been able to solve the problem, largely because Update mortgages were bundled into pools and resold to thousands of In 2009, Pizer announced that, as a cost cutting measure, it was investors around the world, and the rules govering many de closing its New London facility and transferring its 1.400 employ those pools forbid mortgages from being modified unless the ees to a campus the company owns in Groton, Connecticut are already in default, even if it might be in the investors' interes Addendum Richmond, California, a cly of 100.000 people, has been hit hard by the recession and the real estate meltdown. Sixteen percent of its homeowners have lost their homes in foreclosure properties is a legitimate public purpose. Some scholars agree with this contending that the city's novel use of eminent domain would enable the trustees who control the mortgage pools to get rid of bad loans. But Wall Street and various real-estate interests disagree and are lobbying vigorously against the plan. They don't like the precedent it sets, even if the plan would be good for Richmond and possibly for investors, too.80