Another Judge Stops Pre-Condemnation Access

Add West Virginia to the list of states where judges are blocking access for pre-condemnation access to land without land owner permission.

Its generally legal that condemning entities can enter land that they will condemn to survey the land. But, that general ability is being called into question by the courts.

In 2014, California trial judge put the breaks on pre-condemnation access. This week, a West Virginia judge is blocking surveyors for the Mountain Valley Pipeline project from…

Houston Churches Battling Eminent Domain

Two 5th ward churches are in a brewing eminent domain battle over property that the Houston Housing Authority would like to develop for low income housing and a library. This story has it all- historic churches, a wheel chair bound pastor, and a city relying on recommendations from the neighborhood itself.

The churches: 

  • First Christian Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church
  • Latter Day Deliverance Revival Church

The legal actions:

  • The churches, representated by the Liberty Institute, are…

Trump & Eminent Domain. 3 Highlights from Michelle Malkin Column.

A 2011 Michelle Malkin column ties Donalad Trump to eminent domain abuses. The highlights:

  • “Too many mega-developers like Trump have achieved success by using and abusing the government’s ability to commandeer private property for purported “public use.”‘
  • “Trump has shown reckless disregard for fundamental private property rights. In the 1990s, he waged a notorious war on elderly homeowner Vera Coking, who owned a little home in Atlantic City that stood in the way of Trump’s manifest land…