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March 12, 2007
Clarification
The Brooklyn Paper ran this retraction of last week's hyperbolic and misleading headline:
A headline in last week’s edition, “Federal judge: Suit is hot air,” suggested that federal magistrate Robert Levy had recommended that a suit against Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project be dismissed because it lacked merit.
In fact, as the article pointed out, Levy said, “The complaint raises serious and difficult questions regarding the exercise of eminent domain under emerging Supreme Court jurisprudence.”
Levy did recommend that the suit be dismissed — because he believes it should be heard in state, not federal, court.
Our headline should have better reflected what the story reported, namely that Levy was ruling on jurisdictional grounds, not on the merits of the case
Posted by lumi at March 12, 2007 11:41 AM