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What new issue did the Navasota County Judge rise about eminent domain and high speed rail? The impact to property values for property adjacent to property that is taken by eminent domain for high speed rail.
Why is concerned about neighboring property? Neighboring property owners do not receive compensation but will be impacted by Texas Central Rail.
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Audrey Redford, a doctoral fellow with the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, makes these points about asset forefeiture in Texas:
How are asset forefeiture proceeds…
What eminent domain reforms are being touted by a campaign?
State courts in which state are grappling with eminent domain for a pipeline over landowner objections? Pennsylvania
What 3 considerations did the judge list in approving eminent domain to move forward?
How did a tornado recovery lead to eminent domain? To clean up tornado damage, a town undertook widening the main thoroughfare in a low income neighborhood
How was this project funded? Federal Funds
Were the federal government or the local government tasked with implementing the plan to widen the thoroughfare? Local Government
How well was eminent domain received at the city council? According to 1 city council member, “” I have no appetite to vote for eminent domain takings,”
How would a county in Texas be able to capture license plate information for the purpose of enforcing minimum libaility insurance statutes?
How did we learn this step by step guide to county license plate reader use? Because of Attorney General Opinion KP-0076 that answers whether Bowie County can engage a private…
A state representative candidate in rural Utah pilloried using eminent domain for hike and bike trails saying:
““If its on a master plan, we’ll do what we have to do … but not just to run a trail that people think would be nice to have.”
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Who is making an argument about private property rights in cable boxes? Grover Norquist 7 Americans for Tax Reform
What sparked the private property rights argument? A rule change by the FCC which Norquist says would allow 3rd party to change and access content on cable boxes
What’s the issue really? Whether programming apps, like netlfix, Hulu, etc…, must be accessible by cable boxes.
What’s the argument by Norquist really? Cable companies have property rights in their cable boxes,…
The property right: The Business of Deer Breeding
The lawsuit: Deer breeders sued the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department in Feburary 2015 over the taking of their property
What was the property taking alleged by the property owners? The culling of the deer population was tantamount to a taking of private property by eminent domain
What happened in the lawsuit? TPWD claimed sovereign Immunity & the state district judge non-suited the case.
What case before the U.S. Supreme Court is about regulatory takings? Murr v. Wisconsin, No. 15-214
What happened to the property owner to spark this lawsuit?