Buonocore interviewed regarding dune easement litigation

McKirdy & Riskin’s Jack Buonocore was recently interviewed regarding the litigation filed for a commercial property owner in Point Pleasant Beach, which challenges the authority of the NJDEP to acquire public beach easements on its property. The article by MaryAnn Spoto of NJ.com is available here. The television interview on News12NJ on this story is available here

McKirdy & Riskin’s Tony DellaPelle recently authored a legal update article in the Counselors of Real Estate’s Real Estate Issues magazine. The article, entitled “Property ‘Inspection’ or Taking?” discusses a pending case before California’s highest court, which will examine the rights of condemning agencies to enter privately-owned properties targeted for condemnations in order to perform pre-acquisition inspections. A copy of the article is available here.

McKirdy & Riskin’s Tony DellaPelle was interviewed and quoted in this recent article in the Bergen Record, which discussed the backlog of property tax cases currently pending in New Jersey, and the possibility that such backlog may be getting smaller. More information is available here

McKirdy & Riskin’s Jack Buonocore was recently interviewed regarding the efforts of Long Beach Township to obtain access easements on private property. As mentioned, the lawsuit alleges that the township targeted the plaintiffs’ property because they refused to sign separate easement documents permitting the government to take part of their property and use it for the construction of a new sand dune. More information about this matter is available here.

McKirdy & Riskin’s Jack Buonocore was recently interviewed and quoted in an article regarding the efforts of Long Beach Township to acquire beach access easements on private property on Long Beach Island for use in connection with the upcoming beach replenishment project being undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. For more information, the article is available here

Two of McKirdy & Riskin’s partners will be leading a seminar for New Jersey’s Institute for Continuing Legal Education on September 23, 2014 entitled “The Fundamentals of Eminent Domain” at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick. Tony DellaPelle will be serving as the program chair and will be speaking on the eminent domain and relocation process. Jack Buonocore will be delivering the case law update. For more information on this program or to register, click here.

McKirdy & Riskin’s Tony DellaPelle will serve as moderator for a Urban Land Institute program “Harrison: North Jersey’s Next Hoboken?”, which will be held at the Red Bull Soccer Stadium in Harrison on September 17, 2014 and will feature the Harrison Waterfront Redvelopment Project, with speakers from the municipality, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, from the development community and the financial community. For more information or to register, click here.

All nine of McKirdy & Riskin’s attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the 2014 New Jersey Super Lawyers Magazine. Partners Anthony DellaPelle, Edward McKirdy & Harry Riskin were all named to the “Top 100” Attorneys in New Jersey list in the magazine, while partners John Buonocore, Jr. and Tom Olson, and associates Richard DeAngelis, Jr., Joseph Grather and Jeffrey Lewis were named as New Jersey Super Lawyers in the Eminent Domain Practice Area. Associate Cory Kestner was named to the 2014 Rising Star list. For more information click here.

McKirdy & Riskin’s Anthony DellaPelle was interviewed and quoted in an article in the March, 2014 edition of the American Bar Association Journal. The article, which focuses on the possible use of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages in various places around the country, includes comments from DellaPelle regarding the possible problems that these efforts may face in litigating the matters in the proper venues, because these potential takings do not involve takings of real estate, but rather mortgage loans. A copy of the article is available here.

McKirdy & Riskin’s Tony DellaPelle will once again be a panelist at the annual Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Conference, presented by the American Law Institute. This year’s conference will be held at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans from January 23 to 25, 2014. Tony will be speaking on “Condemnation Issues in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters”, and will also present on “Damages and Benefits in Partial Takings Cases” in the Condemnation 101 session of this annual conference. For more information, or to register to attend in person or via webcast, click here.