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Property Owners Get Dunked On - Another victory for the powerful over property rights.
No Land Grab —
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The Wall Street Journal Supporters of the proposed Atlantic Yards project have tried to justify this land grab by Bruce Ratner by trumpeting the developers claims for public benefits to come. This opinion piece shows an understanding of just who the real beneficiary of the development would be. Such unabashed ...1 day ago -
Atlantic Yards Decision Blow To Private Property Rights In New York
No Land Grab —
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Islandlaw Constitutional Rights Pages The definition of blight, according to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, is “Something that frustrates plans or hopes, …or something that impairs and destroys.” Both of these definitions could be used to describe the impact of this week’s Court of Appeals ...1 day ago -
On the Beat - Move to Brooklyn a Step Closer for Nets
No Land Grab —
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Basketball Proespectus by John Perrotto This item noting this weeks Court of Appeals ruling notable as it quotes developer Bruce Ratner stating his committment to the proposed Atlantic Yards project even as he unloads the New Jersey Nets. The Nets’ proposed move from New Jersey to Brooklyn took a big step ...1 day ago -
Use of Eminent Domain Approved for Atlantic Yards Project – State High Court Finds Project Has Public Purpose as Area Meets Blight Definition
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This week the proposed redevelopment of an area in Brooklyn, NY known as Atlantic Yards, cleared another hurdle in what is turning out to be protracted litigation. Basing its holding on State constitutional authority that accords government “broad power to take and clear substandard and insanitary areas for ...1 day ago -
Atlantic Yards site "blighted"? Some "reasonable difference of opinion"
No Land Grab —
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Atlantic Yards Report Last weeks high court ruling has just set the bar impossibly high for New York homeowners and businesses to defend their property rights against eminent domain. Libertarian law professor Ilya Somin calls the Atlantic Yards eminent domain decision "the first major state supreme court ...2 days ago -
Atlantic Yards Freedom-Fighters Dealt Blow In Court
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Ground Report By Richard Cooper A local Libertarian gives his take on this weeks high court ruling and calls for a statewide revolution. The Court used a very sweeping definition of blight to include virtually anything. "Economic underdevelopment and stagnation" are highly ambiguous. I cannot say that I ...3 days ago -
United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government —
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Statement by NYS Senator Velmanette Montgomery on Eminent Domain Ruling
No Land Grab —
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Via Develop Dont Destroy Brooklyn Today’s Court of Appeals decision is a defeat for every property owner in the great State of New York. In finding against the plaintiffs in this landmark case, where citizens bravely persevered in the face of a state agency determined to seize their land for a misbegotten ...3 days ago -
New York Court Favors State in Eminent Domain Case
Real Estate Opinion MAG - AgentGenius —
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New York Court enforces eminent domain ruling Today, New York State’s Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the state in the eminent domain as they seized land for the 22-acre, $4 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn which includes plans for a new basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets, as well as offices, ...3 days ago -
EMINENT DOMAINIA: Morning after news roundup
No Land Grab —
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El Diario La Prenza NY , Luz verde a Nets y Atlantic Yards La máxima corte de Nueva York falló ayer que el estado puede usar la expropiación forzosa contra los propietarios de viviendas y negocios para dar paso a un proyecto de desarrollo masivo en Brooklyn que incluye una nueva cancha de juego para los ...4 days ago -
Atlantic Yards ruling: A blow to Sprayregen?
No Land Grab —
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The Columbia Spectator By Maggie Astor NY City is rife with eminent domain abuse. Yesterdays NY State high court eminent domain ruling has implications for other cases, including Columbia Universitys neighborhood-devouring expansion plan, for which, though it is a "City" project, the State has been brought in to ...4 days ago -
PRESS RELEASE: New York High Court Upholds Eminent Domain for Private Gain
No Land Grab —
Authority: 493
From the Institute for Justice Arlington, Va.—The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, today announced that it would uphold the decision of the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) to condemn privately owned homes and small businesses to make way for wealthy developer Bruce Ratner’s ...4 days ago -
OFFICIAL STATEMENT: NY State Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries
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"I am extremely disappointed with the decision of the Court. The power of eminent domain is extraordinary and should only be authorized in limited circumstances where, unlike in this case, there is a clear and robust public benefit. The use of eminent domain to benefit a private developer to build a basketball arena ...4 days ago -
Ruling Lets Atlantic Yards Seize Land
NYT > Theater —
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The Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn has been delayed for three years by a flurry of lawsuits, the collapse of the credit and real estate markets and a glut of luxury housing.4 days ago -
Eminent Domain, Property Rights and the Results of Government Theft
ThePolitic.com —
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The other day, I wrote about the most recent development in what can best be described as the Kelo Affair – about how the government decided to take people’s homes not because of blight or because the buildings were fit to be condemned, but because politicians decided they knew it’d be better to transfer the ...4 days ago -
Media And Commentary Links On NYCAs Atlantic Yards Decision
inversecondemnation.com —
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While were formulating our thoughts on the NY Court of Appeals decision in Goldstein v. New York State Urban Development Corp ., No. 178 (Nov. 24, 2009), here are media reports and others thoughts on the case: The blog at the epicenter of the case, the Atlantic Yards Report has a series of posts with its ...4 days ago -
Court Endorses Eminent Domain For Private Gain
North Country Gazette —
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NEW YORK—The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, ruled Monday to uphold the decision of the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) to condemn privately owned homes and small businesses to make way for wealthy developer Bruce Ratner’s so-called “Atlantic Yards” development of 16 mammoth ...4 days ago -
FAQ on the Court of Appeals decision in the Atlantic Yards case
No Land Grab —
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Atlantic Yards Report Norman Oder posted an FAQ on todays state high court ruling. Basically, one justice agreed with the property owners, two didnt even think that the case belonged in the high court, and nearly all of the petitioners arguments were ignored, i.e.: the "argument that the state didnt perform ...4 days ago -
The Nets Finally Win!
Cato @ Liberty —
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Unfortunately, that win comes as another blow to property rights : The last major obstacle to a groundbreaking for the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn fell Tuesday when New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, dismissed a challenge to the state’s use of eminent domain on behalf of the ...4 days ago -
Have You Had Enough?
Mover Mike —
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New York High Court Upholds Eminent Domain for Private Gain : While upholding the taking, the New York court did not go so far as to embrace the United States Supreme Court’s much-maligned reasoning in the 2005 Kelo v. City of New London case, which held that the U.S. Constitution allows governments to ...4 days ago
