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Jun. 27, 2015
Lewis Carroll, Humpty Dumpty and final 'offers'
A recent decisin shows why public agencies should avoid making contingent and complex final offers in eminent domain negotiations. By John C. Murphy and Sheereen Javadizadeh
Lewis Carroll - or the Reverend Charles Dodgson, the 19th century Oxford mathematician
and author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" - somehow must have foreseen how
some modern eminent domain lawyers would view words and their meanings. "When I use
a word," Carroll has his Humpty Dumpty character proclaim, "it means just what I choose
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