Judge rejects challenge to airport plan
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A legal challenge to East Hampton Airport's master plan -- one that could have voided years of study and stopped plans for future development -- has been rejected by a State Supreme Court judge.
In his 11-page ruling, Justice John J.J. Jones Jr. rejected seven specific legal challenges to the master plan as well as general complaints that East Hampton Town failed to take a legally required...
