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“Devillier v. Texas” or Why People in Right of Way Should Care Even if They Don’t Care About the Procedural Nuance

rofadmin2024-04-23T14:59:10+00:00April 23rd, 2024|0 Comments

Devillier v. Texas is largely about a procedural nuance, but the pictures contain a message for people in right of way that matters even if the procedural [...]

DOES A CLAIM TO JUST COMPENSATION TRANSFER WITH THE LAND?

Ross Greene2024-04-02T16:05:54+00:00April 2nd, 2024|0 Comments

Is a claim to just compensation from eminent domain real property or personal property? Does a claim to just compensation transfer with the land or not? The [...]

Is a Pretextual Taking Invalid? Not if you say it is for a park.

Ross Greene2024-03-26T02:45:03+00:00March 26th, 2024|0 Comments

The first paragraph in Brinkmann v. Town of Southold, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 5994 (2nd Cir. 2024), may have gotten some takings mavens excited about pretextual takings, [...]

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“The just compensation required by the Constitution to be made to the owner is to be measured by the loss caused to him by the appropriation. He is entitled to receive the value of what he has been deprived of, and no more. To award him less would be unjust to him; to award him more would be unjust to the public.”

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This blog focuses on right-of-way and infrastructure projects, eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and property rights from the perspective of right-of-way professionals and condemning authorities.

MOST RECENT ARTICLES

“Devillier v. Texas” or Why People in Right of Way Should Care Even if They Don’t Care About the Procedural Nuance

DOES A CLAIM TO JUST COMPENSATION TRANSFER WITH THE LAND?

Is a Pretextual Taking Invalid? Not if you say it is for a park.

What We Do

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Bauman v. Ross, 167 U.S. 548, 574, 17 S. Ct. 966, 976 (U.S. 1897).