Welcome to the Future!
How are drones used? Drones fly over private property to collect 3D property mapping models to use in eminent domain litigation
How does this fit with juries? Juries can take virtual reality tours of the property to be condemned
Wisconsin Law Journal | Firm brings modeling into eminent-domain litigation
The local governmental entity: South San Joaquin Irrigation District
The private utility: PG&E facilities in Ripon, Escalon, and Manteca
The purpose for condemning the private entity: Saving the residents of the irrigation district at least 15%
Current status: In July the irrigation district filed eminent domain proceedings
The potential attorney fees: Looking for a guide to the Missoula, MT eminent domain acquisition of a water utility, attorney fees could be more than…
North Dakota in 2015 passed a bill prohibiting quick take of property for eminent domain. it was vetoed. An interim study was convened. Where are they now?
The State: Utah
The Legislation: Senate Bill 151 from 2016 General Session
What Senate Bill 151 requires in a development and tax incentive deal:
Salt Lake Tribune | Op-ed: Data center is a sound investment in Utah’s future
Yes, it was. State Representative Hitchens in a pipeline supporter & author of the 1 year ban on eminent domain.
Why? What pushed him over the edge? A private property rights supporter, a veteran, a retired law enforcement officer, a wildife supporter, and it had been 23 years since Georgia grnated private companies the power of eminent domain.
The 23 year time span since authorization was the tipping point? Partly, Yes. Technologies have changed on pipeline safety.
What landowner…
The Nakota, Lakota and Dakota Nations are mobilizing to halt a pipeline. It is a peaceful protest that prohibits weapons.
Captured on video, its the tribes the largest mobilization in 140 years. The Native Americans are protesting a pipeline across their sacred lands.
All recent Olympics have involved eminent domain, but the largest use of eminent domain was Beijing which took property from 1.5 million.
A lawfirm points out that negotiations with a land owner can generate statements from a landowner that can be used against them at trial.
“Nothing could be more detrimental to the owner.”
Nationaleminentdomain.com | WHY KITCHEN TABLE MEETINGS DO NOT WORK
Background: Georgia legislatively haled eminent domain by private companies while it assessed how pervasive private eminent domain use is.
The official name of the commission: Joint State Commission on Petroleum Pipelines
What types of individuals were appointed by the Georgia Governor to the Eminent Domain Commission?
What is the activist event? Hands Across Our Land, a national activist day
The specific property rights threat? Pipelines
the goal of the property rights activists: ” to bring attention to the plight landowners and communities face as energy corporations push for the construction of pipelines”
The Valdosta Daily Times | Activists hold hands across the land