Click HERE to watch the video. Read the story. Answer the questions.
Eminent Domain is when the government makes you to sell your business or your house to somebody.
In 2001, Columbia began efforts to create a $6 billion campus in Manhattanville. The school partnered with the city and the state to use eminent domain to force the neighborhood businesses to sell their shops to Columbia University.
Columbia already owns or controls about 91 percent of the 17 acres it needs. But two businesses stood up to the expansion, including Tuck-it-Away storage.
"The state and Columbia had no desire to compromise, they wanted it all. And it's the basic principle, in fact, that every small child learns from their parent just because you want something doesn't mean you can take it. And unfortunately Columbia has yet to learn that," said plaintiff Nick Sprayregen.
Columbia declined to comment on the ruling.
In 2001, Columbia began efforts to create a $6 billion campus in Manhattanville. The school partnered with the city and the state to use eminent domain to force the neighborhood businesses to sell their shops to Columbia University.
Columbia already owns or controls about 91 percent of the 17 acres it needs. But two businesses stood up to the expansion, including Tuck-it-Away storage.
"The state and Columbia had no desire to compromise, they wanted it all. And it's the basic principle, in fact, that every small child learns from their parent just because you want something doesn't mean you can take it. And unfortunately Columbia has yet to learn that," said plaintiff Nick Sprayregen.
Columbia declined to comment on the ruling.
Questions:
1) Where did this story take place?
2) When did this story take place?
3) What is Eminent Domain?
4) Why was Columbia University forcing the neighborhood businesses to sell?
5) What did the Court say?
Info from NY1
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