(Ilya Somin) The New York Court of Appeals (which, despite the misleading name, is New York’s state supreme court), recently held oral arguments in Kaur v. New York Urban Development Corporation , the case in which New York City is trying to condemn a large amount of property in the Manhattanville neighborhood in order to transfer it to Columbia University. The Columbia Spectator has an interesting summary of the oral argument here . Columbia and the government’s Urban Development Corporation have are …

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New York High Court Oral Argument in Columbia Eminent Domain Case