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August 10, 2007
GAVEL TO GAVEL: Never say condemn
Courier-Life Publications
Although their lawsuit was thrown out of court months ago, members of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn and other parties living in the footprint of Forest City Ratner Companies’ (FCRC) billion dollar Atlantic Yards Project are taking their fight “up the ladder.”
Opponents to the plan filed an appeal at the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals last week, claiming that Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis’ decision to throw out their lawsuit violated the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo vs. the City of New London, a watershed verdict claiming that eminent domain cannot be used to take an individual’s land for a private benefit.
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FCRC would not comment on the appeal.
Posted by lumi at August 10, 2007 8:44 AM