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August 18, 2016

Regulatory Taking and Inverse Condemnation: Taxi Medallions and Wetland Building Permits

In two separate decisions on August 15, 2016, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York rejected regulatory taking and inverse condemnation claims. The first decision is about the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission’s (“TLC”) commitment to “adopt regulations requiring that half of the city’s more than 13,000 yellow cabs be accessible to people with disabilities within six years.”  Singh v. Joshi, 152 F. Supp. 3d 112 (E.D.N.Y. 2016). The plaintiffs are three individual TLC medallion holders who argued that, among other things, the… read more

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July 29, 2016

Eminent Domain Railway Corridor Valuation: New York Appellate Court Holds State Liable for $67,000,000 in Just Compensation

In a ground-breaking New York eminent domain case where the State of New York took almost seven acres of CSX Transportation, Inc.’s railroad and railway property in order to widen the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in the Woodside and Jackson Heights areas of Queens, New York City, and then vigorously argued that CSX suffered no damage and should not even be awarded anything as just compensation, the New York State Appellate Division, Second Department, on July 27, 2016, in its second time ruling on this case, held that the State was completely… read more

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June 21, 2016

Valuation of Property in an Eminent Domain Case

I argued a case on June 20, 2016 in the Appellate Division, Second Department which involved an appeal by the Condemnor, New York State Urban Development Corporation.  The case arose in the Atlantic Yards – Barclays Center project, Brooklyn.  The case, decided by Justice Wayne Saitta, is reported at 43 Misc3d 1226(A), 2014 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 2275 (Sup. Ct., Kings Co., 2014). The decision awarded claimant $9,186,000 as against an appraisal for $2,075,000 by Condemnor. The trial court found that there was a “very strong probability” of a zoning change… read more

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June 14, 2016

Extensions of Time to File Expert Reports in Eminent Domain Proceedings: Recent New York Court of Claims Decision

Often in eminent domain cases, one or both of the parties will require an extension of time during which to complete its expert reports, which include appraisals, engineering reports, and zoning reports.  And often, the parties will be able to amicably stipulate to the extension.  But, sometimes the parties will not be able to stipulate for a number of reasons, including that one party makes multiple extension requests or that one party requests an unreasonably long extension of time under the circumstances. The Uniform Court Rules that govern extensions in… read more

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May 12, 2016

The Highline and the Romanoff Case

The Highline has been a very successful park.  It was opened to the public in 2009.  It begins at Gansevoort Street in the Meat Packing District and continues to West 34th Street between 10th and 12th Avenues in Manhattan.  It is, to say the least, wildly popular and crowded with tourists taking advantage of the dramatic views. Last week, Owners’ Counsel of America filed an Amici brief in Romanoff Equities, Inc. v United States, No. 15-5034 (Fed. Cir. March 10, 2016), a rails to trial taking case pending in the… read more

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