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April 1, 2008
Group wants Supreme Court to hear Atlantic Yards case
Crain's NY Business
Two months after being shot down by the Second Circuit Court, critics of Forest City’s Ratner $4 billion Atlantic Yards project aren’t giving up the fight.
Eleven property owners and tenants filed a petition this week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their eminent domain appeal, which was dismissed on Feb. 1 by the lower court. The petition charges Forest City with abusing eminent domain for a project that they say will be more beneficial to chief executive Bruce Ratner than the local community.
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"Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, the government will continue to have carte blanche to take private homes and businesses and give them to influential citizens as long as one can imagine a conceivable benefit to the public, no matter how small or unlikely it may be," said Matthew Brinckerhoff, the lawyer for the plaintiffs.The Supreme Court is expected to decide in June whether to hear the group's petition.
Newsday.com posted an article based on the same AP wire story.
Posted by lumi at April 1, 2008 8:00 PM