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Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation
Representative Experience
Examples of our experience
include:
- Represent the Three Rivers Levee Improvement Authority in over 40
property acquisitions in Yuba County for two large levee improvement
projects, including the construction of the largest set back levee
in the western United States.
- Jury trial in the case of Three Rivers Levee Improvement Authority
v. Danna Investment Company resulted in a verdict that was substantially
lower than the pre-litigation offer and deposit of probable compensation.
This resulted in a judgment requiring the landowner to return some
of the deposit to the public agency.
- Obtained pre-condemnation access to numerous properties for environmental
and geotechnical investigations necessary for the design of a major
levee improvement project.
- Represent the Modesto Irrigation District in 20 separate eminent
domain actions involving the acquisition of property for a 230 kV
transmission line.
- Represented 6 different landowners in eminent domain actions brought
by the City of Elk Grove arising out of the Highway 99 and Grantline
Road interchange project.
- Represented landowners in an eminent domain action brought by the
City of Sacramento for the Main Avenue bridge project.
- Represented several landowners in eminent domain actions brought
by CalTrans to acquire property for the widening of State Route 219
in Stanislaus County.
- Represent a local bank in an eminent domain action brought by CalTrans
to acquire a portion of bank property for the Highway 50 and Harbor
Boulevard Interchange Improvement Project in West Sacramento.
- Represent a landowner in an eminent domain action brought by the
Lindsay Unified School District for the construction of the new Lindsay
High School.
- Represented multiple landowners in pre-condemnation negotiations
regarding a flood control agency's acquisitions of residential and
agricultural properties for a major levee project.
- Represent landowners in pre-condemnation activities associated with
the Department of Water Resources Bay Delta Conservation Plan and
the potential peripheral canal.
- Represented a landowner in a successful inverse condemnation suit
against the State of California and a reclamation district regarding
construction of levee upgrades.
- Represented a landowner in pre-condemnation negotiations with CalTrans
regarding the State's acquisition of agricultural acreage for a highway
bypass project.
- Represented land and business owners in pre-condemnation negotiations
regarding a regional transit agency's maintenance facility expansion
project.
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