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October 27, 2006
It came from the Blogosphere...
Local blogs are billing the eminent domain lawsuit as the "High Noon" of the Atlantic Yards fight.
A couple blogs featured images from threecee's flickr photoset on Prospect Heights.
Blogs that allow comments indicate that most people are unaware that the US Supreme Court Kelo decision attempted to describe cases that would be unconstitutional. Atlantic Yards seems tailor-made for a legal challenge along those lines.
Gowanus Lounge, The Decisive Atlantic Yards Battle Begins: Critical Eminent Domain Lawsuit Filed
It's on. What will be the decisive lawsuit over the Atlantic Yards proposal was filed in Federal court yesterday by eleven property owners and tenants within the big footprint of the proposed Forest City Ratner Atlantic Yards project.
Brownstoner, Goldstein et al. File Suit Over AY Eminent Domain
B-stoner wraps up the coverage and asks, "What do you think the suit's impact will be?"
RationalReview, NY: Suit challenges land theft for development
A Libertarian legal blog posted an excerpt and link to the NY Times article.
Curbed, Goldstein et al. File Suit Over AY Eminent Domain
The fight over Atlantic Yards is going to court. (Again.) Ten property owners and tenants on the site where Forest City Ratner would like to build Atlantic Yards have filed a Federal suit to stop the development. This should be the lawsuit over the project and the key legal issue, as expected, is eminent domain, and whether the state's use of it to take property is constitutional.
The Real Deal, Group files lawsuit to stop Atlantic Yards
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, an umbrella group opposed to the Atlantic Yards project in downtown Brooklyn, filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday against several defendants, including Forest City Ratner, the developer of the proposed 8.8-million-square-foot project. The lawsuit includes 10 plaintiffs, all tenants or owners who would be displaced by Atlantic Yards.
Posted by lumi at October 27, 2006 9:51 AM