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Empower Texas is highlighting Houstonian barry Klien, founder of Houston Property Rights Association. In 1992, he founded Houston Property Rights Association to fight against zoning in Houston. Houston Property Rights Association has been active since.
Empower Texas highlights that “Because of his work, the Property Rights Foundation of America called him, “one of the most respected property rights activists in the nation.” With Klein’s tireless efforts and wealth of knowledge, he…
TPPF says these 2015 bills would have helped:
The US Supreme Court let stand a 5th Circuit ruling in favor of TCEQ. Guadalupe Blanco River Authority had sued saying a TCEQ action caused the death of a bunch of whooping cranes.
GBRA was trying to show a regulatory taking of property, which means something of value had to be taken (whooping cranes) and it was the fault of the government (TCEQ).
In this case, not so much proof of a regulatory taking according to the courts. A win for TCEQ. A loss for lovers of whooping cranes.
Say you own property near a Native American reservation. Say you have to use a county road to reach your property, but the county road runs through tribal lands. Does the soveriegn authority of the tribe override your property rights to an easement that you have enjoyed?
Time will tell. Tribes in New Mexico are cutting off access to county roads that traverse tribal lands. Some non-tribal lands, that are wholly surrounded by tribal lands, may have no access to and from their…
The trend that keeps on growing: regulators denying eminent domain authority for private entities.
In this case, Missouri regulators denied eminent domain authority for an electricity transmission line that would run through Missouri but would supply electricity to the benefit of Kansas.
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
“The Missouri Public Service Commission’s 3-2 vote to deny the Grain Belt Express project’s route stalls the entire line, which already won approval from Kansas and…
The ongoing Montana eminent domain fight for Missoula to take its private water utility by eminent domain has reach a new milestone. The global equity interest holder of the water utility has filed an appeal. Missoulian
The same happended recently inTexas. The year, 2014. The case, Zachry v. Port of Houston. A global equity interest, named Zurich, stepped in to offer an opinion that sided with Zachry. Will government contracts and eminent domain end up in court more often because of…
Way back when SB 18 passed in 2009, it required governmental & private entities with eminent domain authority to report to the Comptroller. They did, and more than 6,000 said, yes, we have the power to take private property.
This year that number will grow by at least the 150 or so special purpose districts that were created and granted eminent domain authority.
TPPF has been talking reforming aset forfeiture for a couple years now, and now the CLU and Grover Norquist have joined forces to bring us Fix Forfeiture, a 501(c)(4).
Here’s what Fix Forefeiture wants to fix:
Libertarians and private property rights activists will not stop talking about Kelo. There are books and movies afoot about Kelo.
During this week’s 10 year anniversary, the libertarian presses were on fire:
Eminent domain may be used by Jersey Village against 16 businesses and institutions so that the Village can relocate water and sewer.