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The courts decision could have major implications for the use of eminent domain in Columbia's expansion.
Attorney Norman Siegel, representative of West Harlem Business Group, a group of Manhattanville property owners unwilling to sell to Columbia and who fear eminent domain will be invoked on their property, filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the homeowners. He wrote in the brief that his clients are in "a circumstance similar to the circumstances of petitioners." He has called for New York officials to suspend use of eminent domain until the Court rules in Kelo.