Eminent Domain
Nossaman has an unrivaled track record of success in eminent domain litigation for California investor-owned utilities, as well as for other landowners and business owners. We have a prominent, statewide reputation for creative, competent and efficient representation of the victims of condemnation.
Nossaman attorneys, who comprise one of the largest single condemnation teams in the State, regularly achieve top-notch results in litigation concerning right to take and public necessity, inverse condemnation, precondemnation delay damages and blight, loss of business goodwill, complex severance damages claims, and unreasonable government pre-litigation and litigation tactics.
Nossaman's condemnation experience includes presenting creative valuation theories for a broad range of property types, including utility real property, equipment and adjudicated and unadjudicated water rights, as well as large undeveloped tracts, commercial and multi-family residential buildings and industrial space. The successes of Nossaman's condemnation team have garnered substantial attention throughout the State, including one of the largest jury verdicts ever achieved in Marin County.
Nossaman attorneys have developed a sophisticated strategy to defeat threats of public acquisition, a strategy which also draws upon the firm's well-known expertise in the fields of CEQA and environmental litigation, government relations and legislative advocacy, and Nossaman's ability to work effectively with both valuation consultants and press/public relations consultants.