Professor Raymond Brescia authored the piece "Crash Test Ratings for Banks: Move Your Money Somewhere Safe" for The Huffington Post 2/1/10. 

A provision to require trial-level review could be part of new legislation being drafted by Mr. Perkins, said Amy Lavine, a staff attorney with Albany Law School's Government Law Center, who is advising the state senator. At the top of her list is substituting a specific definition of blight for the current standard of "substandard and insanitary."

One model might be Pennsylvania's law from 2006, which permits a blight finding only when a substantial number of properties meet certain conditions like being "unfit for public habitation" or having been tax delinquent for two years. "It's about making sure there are objective standards relating to public health and safety," Ms. Lavine said.

Ms. Lavine said she also supported lengthening the 30-day time limit for mounting a condemnation challenge.

From an article titled "Lesson on Limits of Eminent Domain at Columbia" in the New York Times 1/20/10.

Laurie Shanks, a clinical professor at Albany Law School, said she expects them to start showing up in smaller airports such as Albany "because it's a big money-maker. There are people who are going to make millions of dollars off these machines."

She noted that former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has been giving interviews saying that the federal government needs to purchase more scanners, even though his security consulting company includes a client that manufactures the machines.

Shanks said expanding the use of scanners would unnecessarily erode privacy.

From an article titled "Full-body scanners coming to airports" in the Daily Gazette 1/9/10.