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June 9, 2008
Today in AY: FCR Rally Panned; Amicus Brief Filed
Brownstoner
Battles over Atlantic Yards' PR face and legal validity continue to rage. On the image front, Daily News sports columnist Michael O'Keefe has a withering piece about the rally Forest City Ratner sponsored at Borough Hall last week in order to demonstrate support for Atlantic Yards. O'Keefe says the developer's statement that 3,500 supporters showed up for the event "seemed extremely optimistic" and that "the speakers at the rally sounded like Hillary Clinton in the waning weeks of her failed presidential campaign: angry and frustrated, stunned at the prospect of defeat when they once expected a slam dunk." The lawsuit-plagued project recently got its latest legal challenge in the form of an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, according to an article in today's Sun. Public-interest firm Institute for Justice, which challenged the use of eminent domain in Kelo v. City of New London, filed the brief on the grounds that it wants the Supreme Court to use it "to clarify how much leeway courts still have to halt the use of eminent domain." It's unclear whether the high court will hear the case, which is brought by residents in the Atlantic Yards footprint who are supposed to be booted from their properties in order for the project to proceed.
Posted by eric at June 9, 2008 11:27 AM