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Article: BASEBALL NOTES Voters will determine fate of Yankee Stadium New York Mayor Giuliani rips ruling by judge
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 8, 1998
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Invoking the vanished ballparks of the city's past, a judge ruled
Wednesday that New Yorkers should be allowed to decide the fate of
Yankee Stadium.
The decision was a defeat for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in his fight
to ban the referendum from the ballot box.
"I don't think it's a legal decision," Giuliani said. "It's a
political decision."
Unless the city wins on appeal, the ruling means voters will
decide on Nov. 3 if they want to spend an estimated $1 billion to
build a new Yankee Stadium on Manhattan's West Side.
In his 15-page decision, state Supreme Court Justice Douglas
McKeon compared building the new stadium to a family buying a new
home, and said "each voice in the family must be ...