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New Jersey court strikes down town's use of eminent domain to skirt the state's affordable housing mandates
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Middletown Township , New Jersey , is taking the case to the state Supreme Court .
The New Jersey Superior Court upheld a trial court ruling preventing the township from using eminent domain to seize a 52-acre property.
The town had previously opted out of the state's affordable housing mandate in 2019 .
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