For the ~3 people who 1. read this blog, 2. were involved in The Spectator's coverage of Columbia's Manhattanville expansion plans, and 3. still care:
The New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division ruled on Thursday that the state’s use of eminent domain in Manhattanville “to benefit a private elite education institution is violative of the Takings Clause of the US Constitution, article 1, § 7 of the New York Constitution, and the ‘first principles of the social contract,’” according to a decision written by State Supreme Court Justice James Catterson.
More at Newsroom and City Room. HUGE.
