United States Second Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-municipality in an eminent domain case is vacated where the means and content of notice mandated by section 204 of New York's Eminent Domain Procedure Law, as applied to plaintiff, were insufficient to satisfy due process requirements.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2005
• Published 12/06/2005

Judges

• WESLEY, Circuit Judge., Before:  WINTER, SOTOMAYOR, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dana Berliner, Institute for Justice, Washington, D.C. (William H. Mellor, Institute for Justice, Washington, D.C., William R. Maurer, Institute for Justice, Seattle, Washington, Martin S. Kaufman, Atlantic Legal Foundation, Inc., New York, New York, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant., Julie Loughran, Assistant Solicitor General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General for the State of New York, Michael S. Belohlavek, Deputy Solicitor General, of counsel), for Intervenor State of New York.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alan D. Scheinkman, DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Tartaglia Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, White Plains, New York, for Defendant-Appellee.