Grave robbing? NJ’s cemetery grab leaves church without a prayer

“New Jersey invoked eminent domain to grab the land for a highway project, and offered the Catholic diocese in Camden $1.9 million, even though church officials say the 6-acre parcel is worth ten times that figure. The land, part of a cemetery but containing no graves, will go to an extensive road-widening project after the state’s Supreme Court declined to hear the church’s appeal. Diocese officials claim the state low-balled them.