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An Elgin community meeting about the Vista Regional Water Plan was laser focused on eminent domain. The citizen comments abou the Vista water pipleine to move water to San Antonio :
Pipeline protesting proliferates the Northern Plains. The most recent rally cry is a purchase of billboard ad space along the proposed route of a pipeline.
Dakota Rural Action purchased the billboards to get citizens engaged. The determination whether to award eminent domain to the common carrier in the permitting process.
Considering the string of recent denials of eminent domain authority to private entities, like a pipeline, in the last few months, the billboard ad buy is a smart…
A Dallas man, who “wanted to stay where the hell he was and be left the hell alone,” is facing eminent domain to make way for a roadway for real estate development deal. That’s the jist of this Dallas Observer piece.
The piece says the public reason for the taking of his property is straightening an intersection 2 blocks away, but alludes to the real reason being a real estate development by former Cowboys.
Here’s what the landowner says transpired:
The Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement joined a coalition called, Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition. It sounds like Occupy movement, which recently started promoting anti-eminetn domain causes, like this.
But, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is led by a 67 year old, retired former Department of Natural Resources official.
The whole shebang is encouraging more private negotiations. Iowa posts online negotiated easements, and the company cites 60% of the land being…
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 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:
Taking private land motivates people. When it comes to Keystone XL pipeline in the Northern plains, there have been protests with crops, Willie Nelson fundraisers, parades, and now protesting at court houses.
A former elected official is vowing to defeat incumbents in different districts if eminent domain overhaul isn’t finalized. The target: no eminent domain for private gain.
Iowa is quickly moving forward to make it considerably more challenging for a private comapny to exercise eminent domain.
“Use of eminent domain also deepens the feelings of landowners and others “who feel the average person’s freedom and liberty doesn’t matter anymore and that big corporations with pol…
Robert Henneke, newly hired as the head of TPPF’s Center for the American Future, will belitigating government overreach and 10th amendment issues, including:
It’s like a Texas version of Institute for Justice, the group of attorneys that represented Kelo in Kelo v. New London, the preeminent eminent domain case of the last 20 years.
Its harder and harder to build insfrastructure in Texas. Tollroads, high speed rails, pipelines are greeted by protestors, private property rights activists, and lawsuits.
The Midwest has responded with the Midwest Alliance for Insfrstructure Now. It is a coalition of: