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February 5, 2010
Looking back at the legal battles: the eminent domain cases over nearly three-and-a-half years
Atlantic Yards Report
With news on the Atlantic Yards front slow on a mid-winter Friday, Norman Oder decided to take a look back at the three-and-a-half year legal battle over the project's use of eminent domain.
The legal battles regarding the Atlantic Yards project are epic and, while nearing conclusion, hardly over. Here are some flashbacks to the arguments over eminent domain, first in federal court, later in state court.
I'll write at another time about the other cases, including those challenging the Empire State Development Corporation's (ESDC) environmental review, the revised Metropolitan Transportation Authority deal for the Vanderbilt Yard, and the ESDC's approval of the 2009 Modified General Project Plan.
Legal papers are posted on Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn's web site.
Posted by eric at February 5, 2010 1:11 PM