WPCNR NAMES IN THE NEWS. From Keane & Beane. (EDITED) January 14, 2006:  Joel H. Sachs, President of the White Plains Bar Association, senior partner with the local law firm of Keane & Beane, P.C., (www.kblaw.com)  will speak on the landmark Supreme Court Kelo decision on eminent domain before the New York Bar Association January 26 at the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Manhattan.  Sachs is a specialist in environmental law, zoning and real estate development, land use and municipal law.

White Plains Eminent Domain Specialist, Joel Sachs will Address the New York Bar on the Brave New World of Eminent Domain.  Photo, Courtesy, Keane & Beane

In his address to the New York Bar, Sachs  will discuss municipalities’ power of eminent domain to condemn private property reportedly for the public benefit by bringing new taxpayers and jobs into an area vs. for such public use as the building of schools, highways and sewage treatment plants.

Mr. Sachs wrote Kelo v. City of New London, the Fall Out an article appearing  recently in  the  New York State Real Property Law Journal, a publication distributed across New York state for real estate professionals. His article addressed the judicial and political repercussions of the Kelo decision where the United States Supreme Court, by a slim 5-4 margin, approved use of condemnation of power by municipalities for economic redevelopment purposes.