We start off 2026 with some good news: after a short hiatus (explained in the episode), Bobby Debelak’s Eminent Domain Podcast is back with Episode 150: “Year in Review and ALI-CLE Preview.”
And we get to join him!
Here’s how Bobby describes the episode:
Bobby returns to the podcast after a brief
It is time to bid farewell to the Year 2025, and our mind wanders back over the last 364 days in an attempt to ascribe meaning, a theme — a vibe — to the year that was.
Scientists tell us that this is just another trip around the Sun, but we humans like to
We all know that the annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference is 2.5+ days of the best national CLE programming on the stated subject. Get a cycle’s worth of CLE credits, including Ethics, taught by experienced practitioners and legal scholars, across three separate tracks (from which you can choose a la carte
A quick one from the South Dakota Supreme Court. But it is well worth your time.
In City of Sioux Falls v. Johnson Properties, LLC, No. 30945 (Nov. 19, 2025), the court upheld a trial court’s award of attorney’s fees to a property owner in an eminent domain action. The final amount of compensation
As we wrap up another year, it’s time to look ahead to the one event that always gets our eminent domain blood pumping: the annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference. Details, including faculty list, a complete agenda, and registration information is posted here.
Now in its 43rd year, this flagship gathering
Check this out: a podcast from Free to Choose Media, entitled “Eminent Domain,” published a couple of months ago.
But the description reveals a time capsule:
Recorded in 2003, Dennis McCuistion, former Clinical Professor of Corporate Governance and Executive Director of the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance at the University of Texas
This past week we were busy with the 22d Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School.
Here’s the text of the remarks which I prepared for the session on “Public Safety, Private Property, and Just Compensation.” Note: because of time, I truncated what I planned on saying and kept
As part of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference being held next week at the William and Mary Law School, the student-run Real Estate Law Society is producing a very interesting program that offers a look back on Kelo v. City of New London, in this that case’s twentieth year.
We’re going to
Be sure to check out the opinion of the Texas Court of Appeals (Fourteenth District) in Jones v. Port Freeport, No. 14-23-00948 (Sep. 18, 2025).
This is a challenge to the Port’s attempt to take property in an historic African-American community, with the stated purpose of the taking being “expansion of the Port Facilities” and “the development of business industries.” Slip op. at 3. The owners objected, asserting that there’s gotta be a plan. Or at least a better plan than that.
Continue Reading Tex App: No Plan, No Public Use, No Eminent Domain: “I’m from the [Port], and I’m here [for a public use]” Is Not EnoughWe have no idea what these cases might be about, or whether there is any substance behind the property owners’ objections, but these are headlines no condemnor could possibly like: