Homeowners and businesses resisting the forced sales of their properties for a massive development in Brooklyn told New York's top court Wednesday that it's unconstitutional for a state agency to use eminent domain to get them out. Developer Bruce Ratner's proposed $4.9 ...

Right out of the gate, justices had a few questions for the lawyers petitioning the State Supreme Court's Appellate Division in a hearing Monday morning to block eminent domain for Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn. "Can we really determine that in this framework?" interjected Justice Randall Eng, just barely after Jennifer Levy, an attorney representing ...

Property owners and tenants filed an appeal late yesterday in U.S. Supreme Court for their case contesting the use of eminent domain in the $4 billion-plus Atlantic Yards project, an action that legal experts have said is likely to be the final chapter for the federal lawsuit, first filed in late 2006. Even a favorable Supreme Court ruling for ...