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October 15, 2009

State’s highest court hears Yards case

The Brooklyn Paper
By Gersh Kuntzman

If the seven judges of New York State’s highest court have any sympathy towards a small group of landowners suing to block the condemnation of their properties so Bruce Ratner can build a basketball arena, they had a funny way of showing it on Wednesday.

Almost half of today’s oral arguments before the Court of Appeals was consumed by a debate over whether the property owners missed a deadline for filing their appeal in the first place.

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Posted by lumi at October 15, 2009 4:57 AM