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January 24, 2011
Eminently Legal Destruction
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance
Poor Richard Lipsky. He appears to be suffering from amnesia, forgetting about his love of eminent domain for Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project (and hatred of opponents), for which he served as a paid consultant, before turning opponent himself, as a paid consultant for eminent domain victims of the Columbia University expansion and Willets Point land grab.
In yesterday's NY Post, the paper had an article about the fact that property owners in NY State have absolutely no protection from the depredations of those elected officials who want to take away their property.
...And in our view, the Court of Appeals in this state is an ass-but it is the legislature's failure to remedy the state of eminent domain law in New York that is the real scandal. With the state's highest court taking the, "see no evil," approach, justice for landowners here is truly blind, and will remain so unless the legislature acts-as it has in so many other states in the post-Kelo era.
NoLandGrab: Obviously, Lipsky's Atlantic Yards consulting contract has expired.
Posted by eric at January 24, 2011 8:50 AM