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Civil Liberties

"This is not about some great public use"

Damon Root | 11.23.2009 2:16 PM

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CNN had a nice segment last Friday on the Atlantic Yards eminent domain fight, featuring lead plaintiff (and Reason contributor) Daniel Goldstein explaining why New York's highest court should put a stop to this shameless case of eminent domain abuse:

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of three books, including A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His latest book is Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books).

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