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December 4, 2009

NY Court Rejects Columbia University Eminent Domain Claim
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Here in New York, a state appeals court has rejected a government
attempt to invoke eminent domain to seize property in Manhattan for a
proposed expansion project by Columbia University. In a three-to-two
ruling, the court criticized what it called the government’s “idiocy” in
declaring the neighborhood in question “blighted” to justify the
takeover.



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