Carolan v. Township of Long Beach

Filing Date: 2014

Case Categories:

Constitutional Claims
- Fifth Amendment

Adaptation
- Challenges to adaptation measures

Principal Laws:

Fifth Amendment—Takings, New Jersey Constitution, New Jersey Eminent Domain Act, New Jersey Disaster Control Act

Description: Challenge to easements for flood hazard risk reduction measures.

Carolan v. Township of Long Beach

Docket number(s): OCN L - 003379 14

Court/Admin Entity: N.J. Super. Ct.

Case Documents:

Filing Date	Type	File	Action Taken	Summary
11/05/2014	Complaint	Download	Complaint filed.	A group of oceanfront property owners in the Township of Long Beach, New Jersey, filed a lawsuit against the Township and the State of New Jersey challenging the Township’s taking of permanent easements for the construction of flood hazard risk reduction measures. Such measures are to include expansion of a dune structure. The property owners contended that the Township illegally bypassed New Jersey’s Eminent Domain Act and instead purported to take the easements in favor of itself and the State pursuant to the State’s Disaster Control Act.