Atlantic Yards
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Atlantic Yards
In an unusual move for a highly charged case turning on fine points of law, Justice Carol R. Edmead of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ruled from the bench immediately after a long and at times raucous hearing in a suit brought by opponents of the $3.5 billion Atlantic Yards project. But in another decision, Justice Edmead found that a prominent environmental lawyer's earlier work on behalf of Forest City Ratner disqualified him from representing the Empire State Development Corporation in the Atlantic Yards case. In December 2003, Forest City Ratner retained the lawyer, David Paget, to consult on environmental compliance for the Atlantic Yards project.