Eminent Domain in Brooklyn: The Wall Street Journal has an editorial today sharply criticizing the stadium plans of Nets owner Bruce Ratner. The piece not only questions the idea of using public money to build the new stadium in Brooklyn, which is a common argument made today. It also derides the potential use of eminent domain to seize part of the land for the future development. It seems that Ratner faces a tough battle, both legally and politically, for his Brooklyn idea to become reality.



You can read my analysis of eminent domain in this earlier post.

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