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New York's Highest Court Upholds Eminent Domain Abuse

Damon Root | 11.24.2009 9:50 AM

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Very bad news out of Albany this morning: New York's Court of Appeals has just upheld the state's controversial use of eminent domain on behalf of real estate tycoon Bruce Ratner and his Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn. I'll have more details later.

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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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