Landowners hire takings expert for fracking suit
“A statewide group of pro-fracking landowners has hired an expert in takings claims and eminent domain to represent them in an expected lawsuit against New York.
Robinson & Cole LLP will help represent the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York as it puts together a suit against the state, which will, among other things, claim New York has illegally taken their oil-and-gas rights by not yet allowing large-scale hydraulic fracturing.
One of the firm’s attorneys, Joseph Clasen, successfully represented Long Island-based Gyrodyne Co. of America last year in an eminent domain case, in which the state was forced to pay the company $167.5 million when it undervalued land that was seized for Stony Brook University.”
Campbell, Jon. Politics on the Hudson 19 July 2013.