National Eminent Domain Blog
This blawg covers eminent domain and condemnation.
Author: Alan Ackerman is the managing partner of Ackerman Ackerman & Dynkowski in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
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Recent Posts from National Eminent Domain Blog
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Economic Development
North Carolina News Network State lawmakers could ask voters to decide whether the government should be allowed to take a person’s land for economic development purposes. The power of eminent domain allows governments to seize…
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Federal Courts
West Virginia Record CHARLESTON - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a developer targeting the city of Dunbar and one specific member of the city's council. Robert Weidlich, through his…
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Blight
Roanoke Virginia Times "We're going to prove that Carilion and the city got together in advance and decided to make that land available for Carilion. And then, to satisfy the agreement, adopted the redevelopment plan,"…
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Undergroud Energy Storage
Des Moines Register Compressed air would be stored in a network of 13 wells 3,000 feet deep and then released at strategic times to turn the turbines on two 134-megawatt electricity generators. The stored energy…
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A Simple Apology
LoHud.com PORT CHESTER - The village apologized to a property owner today for improperly seizing his land a decade ago and officially signed an agreement that will pay him $475,002 and name a street…
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Assessed Value Compared to FMV
Business Week Assessed at $148,400; bought for $280,000. Assessed at $172,200; bought for $345,000. Assessed at $440,000; bought for $2.8 million. Yi's property assessed in 2007 at $88,200. The city is offering $100,000. What's wrong…
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School Land for Airport
Post Trib School officials were waiting for their attorneys to review the decision. "(The resolution) is an option they have threatened to exercise in the past," said School Board President Nellie Moore. "If that's what…
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Airport Wants School Property
Gary Post Tribune But the School Board -- facing a fiscal deficit -- wants $3.75 million for the land. That's terribly unrealistic, even if the schools would choose to preserve the land and include it…
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Quick Take Proceedings
Daily Press In explaining the contract, city officials said the Hornsbys were already in the midst of expanding their business on land next door, so the city's offer not only had to consider the…
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Colo. governor blocks Army expansion on ranchland
DENVER (AP) — The Army's plan to expand a southeast Colorado training site is facing another obstacle now that Gov. Bill Ritter has signed a measure barring the use of state land for the project…