Discussing “Let There Be Blight: Blight Condemnations in New York After Goldstein and Kaur” by Ilya Somin
1. “Rethinking Balancing Tests in Blight Condemnation Jurisprudence” by Rick Hills
February 3rd, 2012
Professor Somin has written an incisive critique of the New York Court of Appeals’ decisions in Kaur[1] and Goldstein,[2] the gist of which is that the Court did not do enough to stop “highly abusive blight condemnations.”[3] There are, however, two difficulties with the critique.