Navigating Eminent Domain in New Jersey
Date: Aug 19, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $177.00
Non-Member Price: $209.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Environmental, Land Use, Local Government, Real Estate
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Michael J. Ash, Esq.
- Chair, Westfield Planning Board
Carlin, Ward, Ash & Heiart LLC, Florham Park - Anthony F. DellaPelle, Esq.
- McKirdy, Riskin, Olson & DellaPelle, PC, Morris Plains
- Timothy P. Duggan, Esq.
- Stark & Stark, Hamilton
- James Graziano, Esq.
- Archer & Greiner PC, Voorhees
- Kevin P. McManimon, Esq
- McManimon Scotland & Baumann, LLC, Roseland
The government's ability to seize private land for public purposes is a powerful and complex tool. Both the federal and New Jersey Constitutions, along with caselaw, impose important limits on this power. This seminar offers a comprehensive review of the statutory and caselaw framework governing eminent domain practice in New Jersey.
Attendees will gain insight into how governmental entities initiate takings, as well as how the takings are limited by requiring condemners to articulate the necessity, public purpose, and foreseeability of a project's completion.
There is no such thing as a "routine" taking - each case is unique and requires a fact-specific analysis. Join this seminar to hear from New Jersey’s prominent eminent domain practitioners as they offer practical insights and strategies for effectively representing clients facing eminent domain actions.
Topics include:
- Relevant caselaw
- The scope and limits of eminent domain proceedings
- Understanding “just compensation”
- Prelitigation considerations
- Litigation strategies and procedures
- Valuation and appraisal
- Non-compensability
- Environmental issues and regulatory takings
- Relocation
- Challenges involving specific types of takings
- and more!
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