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National Eminent Domain Blog

Covers eminent domain and condemnation.
By Alan Ackerman

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 16:47:47

Restaurant owner: Mt. Prospect won't push me out

Posted on September 08, 2009
Daily Herald Never without his U.S. Marines baseball cap, Tod Curtis is a walking, talking symbol of old downtown Mount Prospect. He believes Mount Prospect village officials have been conspiring to drive him out of business for years, and want him out now, in particular, to proceed with a downtown development without him...

Contamination in the condemnation process

Posted on September 07, 2009
NJ.com Last week, a state Superior Court judge in Union County directed Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. and Power Test Realty, two New York companies, to pay the state more than $866,932 for the cleanup, which included removing eight underground fuel-storage tanks that had oozed benzene, xylene, methyl tertiary ether and ethyl benzene into the soil for years, according to state Attorney General Anne Milgram...

Valuation in Flood Areas

Posted on September 06, 2009
Standard Examiner "Davis County changed the parcel of land to 5.3 acres, and my taxes increased," Jenkins said. He said he became the land's owner in 1980 and it was zoned R-2, which meant he could have up to 10 units per acre if he developed the property...

Railroad drops condemnation suits

Posted on September 04, 2009
Wyoming Business Review CHEYENNE — Nineteen landowners in Converse, Weston, Campbell and Niobrara counties can relax. Lawsuits filed by the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp. (DM&E) to condemn parts of their property as rights of way for a new coal-hauling train line were dropped yesterday...

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Noise Mitigation in Warwick

Posted on September 02, 2009
Warwick Beacon RIAC's most recent proposal to expand the main runway to 8,700 feet, while not the city's preferred option, has been the most reasonable to date. However, contrary to their assertions, RIAC and the FAA have continued to minimize and marginalize Warwick's very real, reasonable and legitimate concerns...

A Monument Waste in Florida

Posted on September 01, 2009
Broward News The Broward County School Board has driven the school district into near-bankruptcy by overbuilding by tens of thousands of seats that now sit empty. Part of the reason is that every board member has had a pet project that's added to the hundreds of millions of dollars misspent...

Wal-Mart on the Prowl

Posted on August 31, 2009
Business Journal Wal-Mart is one of several big-box stores that Gary Rappaport, CEO of The Rappaport Cos., says have expressed interest in Skyland, the Southeast D.C. shopping center he has long planned to overhaul with William C. Smith & Co...

St. Louis Eminent Domain Plan

Posted on August 30, 2009
Fort Mill Times A group called the North Side Community Benefits Alliance scheduled a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Shining Light Pentecostal Church. They'll discuss protections against eminent domain, a government power to take private property for a public purpose...

Limitations on the freedom of speech

Posted on August 28, 2009
Times Union In October 2008, Royall sued Main and her publisher Encounter Books), seeking monetary damages and a ban on further production and distribution of the book. He also sued the Galveston newspaper that reviewed the book and the reviewer...

Another Low Ball Offer

Posted on August 27, 2009
NJ.com LOGAN TWP. Following unsuccessful negotiations to buy 872 acres of land along the Delaware River here, Gloucester County officials will try to take the property through eminent domain. The county offered American Atlantic Company $4 million for the waterfront property just north of the Commodore Barry Bridge, land currently used to dump dredging spoils scooped up from the bottom of the Delaware River during routine maintenance...

New York's problems in obtaining change

Posted on August 26, 2009
New York Daily News In recent years, New York has earned the dubious distinction of being one of thenation's worst abusers of eminent domain. The Empire State Development Corp. (ESDC) and localities have approved condemnation of property for a huge range of wealthy private entities, including the New York Stock Exchange, Costco, Stop & Shop and Columbia University...

Property owners refuse to leave

Posted on August 24, 2009
NJ.com Some business owners in Cedar Rapids' flood plain say they've received a worse deal than homeowners: They were offered only the value of their land. And if they stay, there's no guarantee the Army Corps won't remove electric, water and sewer lines from under the levee to prevent them from undermining the system...

Premising FMV on assessed value

Posted on August 23, 2009
NJ.com The city offered Ellis and his girlfriend the pre-flood assessed value of their home and land - about $86,000 - but subtracted about $25,000 the couple received in initial disaster assistance from FEMA. "You can't get a house for $61,000 out here," Ellis said...

Protecting Property Rights

Posted on August 20, 2009
Star Ledger READINGTON -- A state appeals court today reversed a previous decision allowing Readington to exercise eminent domain over hundred of acres surrounding a Hunterdon County airport they wanted to preserve as open space. The panel of three judges said the town's decision to condemn 625 acres surrounding Solberg Airport was suspect and substantially motivated by a desire to limit the facility's expansion...

Property Rights in North Carolina

Posted on August 19, 2009
Gazette The eminent domain restriction effort did make it to the floor of the House as the days in Raleigh were drawing longer and the temperature outside was rising. But that bill was sent back to committee and never got a floor vote. A parliamentary effort by one of the bill's primary sponsors, Rep...

Save one dollar and spend two

Posted on August 17, 2009
NJ.com Freeholder Anthony Romano of Hoboken brought up the possibility of moving county workers out of the annex long enough to complete the needed upgrades _ once the building is acquired. Other freeholders and County Clerk Abraham Antun agreed that space was available in the nearby county Administration Building on Newark Avenue...

Judge orders DOT to pay more

Posted on August 15, 2009
News Times Those valuations varied wildly -- $2.4 million to $4.1 million from the state's experts and $25 million to $29.1 million from Rock Acquisition's appraisers. Rock Acquisition LP was represented by lawyers Jay Skelton of Fairfield and Bart Halloran of Farmington...

AEP - Transmission Routing

Posted on August 13, 2009
MSNBC QUESTION: Can you give an update on whether there are any significant legal or litigation challenges to the line? RESONSE: Mike Morris, AEP's chairman, president and CEO, "At the end of the day, there will only be, please don't put this in my backyard...

Pipelines, potential for more lines

Posted on August 10, 2009
The Columbian The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will hold public meetings this month on a proposed 119-mile natural gas pipeline that would run mostly parallel to an existing pipeline along the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge. The applicant, Williams Northwest Pipeline, says the Blue Bridge Pipeline is needed to meet increased demand for natural gas in western Washington markets...

Cabarrus sues over pipeline project

Posted on August 07, 2009
Independent Tribune But Hovanec explained why the city wants the pipeline. Monroe sells natural gas and is building the pipeline to connect to the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline in Mooresville. That pipeline runs from Texas to New York. The pipeline will reduce the cost of natural gas for its customers by $18 per year once it is complete...

Virginia's Kelo invitation

Posted on August 05, 2009
Pilot Online A circuit judge has cleared the way for the city's Redevelopment and Housing Authority to buy a handful of properties along Hampton Boulevard, agreeing with the agency that the area between 38th and 41st streets is still blighted. Property owners there tried to block the authority from using eminent domain to take their land, saying redevelopment in recent years has improved the neighborhood so much that it no longer meets the state's definition of a troubled area...

O'Hare Modernization Act

Posted on August 04, 2009
Chicago Tribune At issue is whether the state even has the power of eminent domain for the Peotone airport. Shea said the state was given that authority in 2003 when the O'Hare Modernization Act was signed into law. It included provisions to begin purchasing land in an area suitable for airport construction over the next 10 to 20 years...

Railroad's right to land points to charter

Posted on July 30, 2009
TimesNews of North Carolina The bill — which passed the House in May and sits before the Senate Judiciary Committee — would prepare the way for a light rail corridor, should the state choose to begin high-speed rail service. Light rail trains can't run on the currently laid track...

Alleged Tax Benefit

Posted on July 27, 2009
Belleville News JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A group seeking to limit eminent domain is concerned that a legal appeal could make it harder to get the issue on Missouri's 2010 ballot. Missouri Citizens for Property Rights is backing a pair of constitutional amendments that would restrict the condemnation of private property for redevelopment...

Businesses Fight Blight

Posted on July 20, 2009
Chronicle Online LORAIN — City officials may be checking into whether properties labeled blighted in a study done by a Cleveland consulting firm deserve the designation. The blight study is part of the process the city is undergoing to create an urban renewal plan for the area along Broadway from East Erie Avenue along the Black River to about 12th Street...

Damned if you do, damned if you don't!

Posted on July 17, 2009
Washington Chronicle The Airport Board suggested the condemnation after 12 years of unsuccessful negotiations, during which it claims to have made offers well above market value for the property. With the approval of both jurisdictions, the pieces are in place for the airport board to take the land under eminent domain...

Agreement without Condemnation

Posted on July 16, 2009
AP The Illinois Commerce Commission on Wednesday approved Calgary-based Enbridge Inc.'s application for the pipeline expected to run from the company's Pontiac terminal south to a pipeline hub near Patoka in Marion County. At least for now, the commission turned down Enbridge's request for eminent domain authority, ruling the company should continue negotiating with landowners for easements for the pipeline...

This is agreement or condemnation!

Gadsden Will PAY for a Landfill

Posted on July 15, 2009
Gadsden Times Revenue from operating the transfer station then could be used to close the landfill properly. But Simms and Turnbach said it is the commission's legal position that the county is not responsible for closing the landfill. Simms said Noble has told the commission he is interested in reopening the landfill...

Convention Center Glut

Posted on July 13, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Appalachian Power Park, a new main library and an improved riverfront have dominated headlines over the past decade as improvements or proposed ideas to enhance the atmosphere of Charleston...

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