Atlanic Yards

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Alan Ackerman

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 3,2007

Plaintiffs are challenging the use of eminent domain to build the planned Atlantic Yards Project.

Plaintiffs are property owners and rent subsidized tenants located in the footprint of the planned 22-acre development project.

Under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, "private property shall not be taken for public use, with just compensation."

-The Atlantic Yards case is a difficult case and will have little opportunity for success given the presence of Kelo precedent.  However, it may be in the United States Supreme Court where we visit the issue.  If the Supreme Court does reverse the Kelo decision, it will only be due to misuse and abuse of the power by local communities that put us all in this horrible position.

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