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Litigation

Aug. 14, 2013

Justices: Jury, not judge, should decide city's eminent domain action against landowners

Property owners in the city of Perris got a break last week when a state appellate panel reversed a trial court's decision regarding the city's eminent domain action against the owners, letting the issue instead be decided by a jury.


By Katie Lucia


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Property owners in the city of Perris got a break last week when a state appellate panel reversed a trial court's decision regarding the city's eminent domain action against the owners, letting the issue instead be decided by a jury.


In the opinion, handed down Friday by the Riverside-based 4th District Court of Appeal, the panel held that a jury, and not a judge, should decide issues that coul...

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