{"id":2333,"date":"2009-11-25T13:27:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2009-11-25T13:48:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T18:48:28","slug":"new-york%e2%80%99s-highest-court-disappoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2333\/new-york%e2%80%99s-highest-court-disappoints\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s Highest Court Disappoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, most of you have heard that New York\u2019s highest court, the Court of Appeals, has ruled in favor of New York City\u2019s use of eminent domain.<\/p>\n<p>This opinion strikes a huge blow to the state of property rights across the nation and it\u2019s another sad consequence of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s dreadful decision in <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/html\/04-108.ZO.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kelo v. New London<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The land in the New York case wasn\u2019t blighted or vacant.\u00a0  Instead, certain well-heeled individuals with connections to the city government thought that they could use their power to construct \u2026 a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets.\u00a0  Seeing as how the Nets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/basketball\/2009\/11\/24\/2009-11-24_new_jersey_nets.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">haven\u2019t won a game this year<\/span><\/a>, perhaps they ought to take up residence in a local high school gym instead of forcing landowners out of their property.<\/p>\n<p>If you have the stomach for it, the full New York Court of Appeals opinion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/ctapps\/decisions\/2009\/nov09\/178opn09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is available here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, most of you have heard that New York\u2019s highest court, the Court of Appeals, has ruled in favor of New York City\u2019s use of eminent domain. This opinion strikes a huge blow to the state of property rights across the nation and it\u2019s another sad consequence of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s dreadful decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[558,559,560,92],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-eminent-domain","tag-kelo","tag-new-york","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}