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December 5, 2009
Court Nixes University’s Harlem Expansion
Globe Street
By Daniel Wise
This article on this week's decision by the Apellate Court against Columbia University's use of eminent domain connects with the ongoing Atlantic Yards fight.
On the subject of Atlantic Yards, lead counsel Matthew Brickerhoff of the group Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn issued a statement following Thursday’s Columbia decision saying that, "The timing of the ruling is certainly propitious. In the next few days, we will file a motion asking the Court of Appeals to reconsider its ruling in our case, based on this new indictment of the agency’s standard operating procedure. We know that the Court of Appeals will now review the Columbia University ruling, and we are optimistic that the abuse of power detailed in Justice Catterson’s powerful opinion, combined with the agency’s similar conduct in the Atlantic Yards case will cause a few of the judges who already expressed skepticism to reconsider their decision."
Posted by steve at December 5, 2009 9:05 AM