Law firm calls on Supreme Court to stop Atlantic Yards
June 09, 2008 08:37AM
Atlantic Yards
An influential public interest law firm has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn. The Virginia-based Institute for Justice challenged the use of eminent domain for a private development in the landmark case Kelo v. City of New London; the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the development. Now the institute's lawyers want the court to overturn two lower federal court rulings and rule that using eminent domain is unconstitutional when property is taken in "bad faith or for pretextual reasons," like benefiting a private developer. [Sun]
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Anonymous
The Atlantic Yards project will take a dead land, which is not being used at all in to a neighborhood. Why wouldn't people in Brooklyn and officials from the city of NY want that. Its going to bring jobs and businesses to Brooklyn. Ask yourself: why wouldn't people want that? Because they don't know what's good for them.
Comment #1 Posted By: Anonymous 06/09/08
Anonymous
Because there are better plans out there that will bring more jobs, cost the taxpayers less, and fit in better with the surrounding neighborhood. All without throwing people out of their homes. No mystery there.
Comment #2 Posted By: Anonymous 06/10/08