Yesterday, a New York court rejected the eminent domain plan being used by the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) to enable Columbia University to build a massive campus expansion.  The court found that ESDC hired the same consulting firm that Columbia used, the studies done to show blight in the area (the pretext upon which ESDC was basing its use of eminent domain) were entirely fabricated by the agency and its conflicted consultants and that Columbia was responsible for the blight...
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