CRDA v. BANIN


727 A.2d 102 (1997)

320 N.J. Super. 342

CASINO REINVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, a public corporate body of the State of New Jersey, Plaintiff, v. Josef BANIN and Mrs. Josef Banin, his wife; Peter Banin; Golden Island; Anatoly Kovayrenko t/a Golden Island; City of Atlantic City, Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority; State of New Jersey; L. Norman Markowitt and Margaret Markowitt, his wife; and Atlantic City Electric Company, Defendants. Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, a public corporate body of the State of New Jersey, Plaintiff, v. Raymond Coking and Vera Coking, his wife; Barbara Torpey; Heritage Bank, N.A.; Atlantic City Medical Center; Commercial Banking Corporation; Fidelity Union Trust: Company; Atlantic City Electric Company; City of Atlantic City, Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority; and State of New Jersey, Defendants. Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, a public corporate body of the State of New Jersey, Plaintiff, v. Vincent Sabatini and Clara Sabatini, his wife; Anna Bloh; Boardwalk Properties, Inc.; City of Atlantic City; Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority; State of New Jersey; and Atlantic City Electric Company, Defendants.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Atlantic County.

Decided July 20, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Raborn, Morristown, for plaintiff (Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, attorneys; Vincent Sharkey, of counsel).

Norman L. Zlotnick, Atlantic City, for defendant Banin (Mairone, Biel, Zlotnick & Feinberg, attorneys).

Glenn A. Zeitz, Cherry Hill, for defendant Coking.

Dana Berliner, for defendant Coking (Institute for Justice, attorneys).

James P. Savio, Absecon, for defendant Sabatini (Savio, Reynolds & Drake, attorneys).

Liane Levenson, Atlantic City, for Trump Plaza Associates (Cooper, Perskie, April, Niedelman, Wagenheim & Levenson, attorneys).


WILLIAMS, A.J.S.C.

These three cases involve a challenge to Casino Reinvestment Development Authority's (CRDA's) attempt to exercise its power of eminent domain. CRDA and Trump seek a judgment determining that CRDA is duly vested with the power of eminent domain and has appropriately exercised the power. If the court concludes that such is the case it will enter a judgment to that effect and appoint three neutral commissioners to hold hearings to determine the just...

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