Representative Experience

• In an eminent domain case brought by the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Board to take land used by our client’s big-box retail operation, we used the leverage of a challenge to the agency’s right to take the property to obtain a settlement reducing to insignificance the amount of our client’s land being taken. We also imposed work rules on the agency that eliminated any adverse impact of the agency’s construction work on our client’s operations.
• Represented a client in an eminent domain case brought by a pipeline utility. We used the leverage of a challenge to the utility’s right to take our client’s property to obtain a settlement imposing work rules that eliminated any adverse impact of the utility’s construction work on our client’s operations.
• Obtained dismissal in a Caltrans eminent domain case brought by the department and involving it taking a pylon sign to enlarge a freeway off ramp and a portion of the sign owned by our client. We worked with other aligned property owners and prevailed because of Caltrans’ failure to comply with statutory notice requirements.

For more information, please contact Bob Baradaran, Chair of the Real Estate Group.