Third time around for Lost Tree’s takings case against the federal government on this blog.
The first was the Federal Circuit’s decision concluding that a single Florida parcel owned by the plaintiff was the relevant parcel against which the impact of the Corps of Engineers’ denial of a § 404 wetlands dredge and fill permit is
California law requires a condemnor to present to the property owner a final pre-trial settlement offer 20 days before trial, and for the property owner to make a final demand. If a court later determines that the condemnor’s final offer was unreasonable and the property owner’s final demand was reasonable, the property owner is entitled
From the Iowa heartland, we offer the headline of the week: “Iowa landowner claims he was offered prostitute by oil pipeline company rep.“
And you’re not going to beat this lede any time soon: “A southeast Iowa landowner claims he was offered the services of a prostitute in exchange for allowing a
In West Virginia, mineral rights can be owned separately from the surface estate. Not that unusual; something we learned in the first year of law school, in Property I. You might assume that condemning agencies’ lawyers in West Virginia and similar jurisdictions understand this, and counsel their clients accordingly.
Or maybe not, once you
If you have plans to be in Wisconsin or environs in June, the Wisconsin chapter of the Appraisal Institute is putting on its 12th annual Condemnation Appraisal Symposium at the Marquette Law School on Wednesday, June 3, 2015.
One of the featured speakers is Mike Berger on “Current National Eminent Domain Issues,” and there will
We’re at a conference with the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law in Philadelphia (talking about eminent domain, public use, just comp, and Horne, inter alia), so we haven’t had the time to read this opinion — issued just a few minutes ago — in detail. But it’s a case we’ve been
Here’s a couple of editorials about the Ramsey case, recently decided by the Virginia Supreme Court. [Disclosure: we filed an amicus brief in support of the Ramseys in that case.]
The Virginia Supreme Court today came back with an opinion in Ramsey v. Commissioner of Highways, No, 140929 (Apr. 16, 2015), a eminent domain case in which we filed an amicus brief in support of the property owner.
Under Virginia’s condemnation procedures, as a prerequisite to a court exercising jurisdiction over an eminent domain
Here’s the amici brief on behalf of Central Oregon Builders Association, Oregonians in Action, and Owners’ Counsel of America in a case being considered by the Oregon Supreme Court, State of Oregon v. Alderwoods (Oregon), Inc., No. S062766.
In an eminent domain action to improve Highway 99W in Tigard, Oregon, the DOT condemned Alderwoods’
We can’t reproduce the entire interview, and the link to the online version is behind a partial paywall, but here are the highlights of a recent interview, where A. Kam Napier, the Editor-in- Chief of Pacific Business News, came by and chatted with us about eminent domain, property rights, and the Honolulu rail