Josh Cash (Partner-New York, NY) and Omar Graham (Associate-New York, NY) secured summary judgment for a major wireless network operator in a matter involving inverse condemnation (an allegation under section 27 of the New York Transportation Corporations Law that property was taken without payment). In the same complaint, the plaintiffs tacitly admitted that they gave our client permission to use the land. The plaintiffs refused to discuss settlement in good faith and were apparently seeking somewhere in the range of $200,000 to $300,000 for the continued presence of a pole in their backyard. Consequently, litigation lasted more than four years and even saw plaintiffs denounce their own signature and instead claim for the first time during their depositions that our client must have forged it. We were able to move for summary judgment, argued in Kings County Supreme Court (Civil Term), Second Judicial District of New York. The court agreed with all of our arguments and denied plaintiffs’ cross motion to amend the complaint to contradict the original complaint and allege that they did not sign the document permitting our client to replace the subject utility pole. The motion was prepared and argued by Omar Graham.