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A $15 Million legal bill forced a Kentucky city to file for bankruptcy.
How did this happen? A suburb of Louisville had a land dispute with a trucking school that spent years in court.
What was the legal dispute? Land use. The trucking school had been leasing land from the city with an option to buy. The city never allowed the school to buy the land. The trucking school had business losses as a result and the court agreed, ruling in favor of the trucking school.
What judgment was…
Landowners have used the legal process to stop Keystone XL & got a win this week.
How did landowners win? An Eminent Domain action against various landwoners has been dropped by the pipeline.
Why drop a lawsuit against landowners? Don’t they need to build their pipeline?
Case law under the current eminent process favored landowners through the Nebraska Supreme Court.
Do the pipelines have an alternative course of action? Yes. The Pipeline will try another regulatory route through…
What project wanted eminent domain authority? A transmission line for the Grain Belt Express which was set to run through Kansas, Missouri, Illinois & Indiana.
How was eminent domain authority denied?
Same 3 points made as eminent domain attacks on Trump continue this week with:
Previously on Information Intelligence, 3 Attacks Points fromt eh Club for Growth:
A new documentary details the plight of landowners that oppose the Bluegrass Pipeline. Top 5 complaints from landowners:
What was the end result?
The Legal Decision a Win for Landowners. Landowners in Long Beach, New York prevailed in court this week when an appeal by the city was denied.
$5.5M per landowner for undervalued land in eminent domain. The decision awards $19 million for land values, attorney fees and costs, plus interest to land owners. Each landowner was underpaid for property at the roughly $5.5 million each.
What is the city doing with this land? A Developer wants to build luxury apartments, retail space, and a…
TPPF tells us red states are moving to reform cvil asset forfeiture laws because:
Recommended reforms:
The Aliens are Coming. The U.S. Airforce controls Area 51 in the Nevada desert. To enlarge its alien collection, or some other non-tin foil hat reason, the U.S. Air Force wants to expand Area 51.
Private Property Rights are Gold- literally in Nevada. Rural Nevadans are a lot like Texans- independent minded- and land loving.
The Feds want to acquire mining lands. The Sheahans have owned hundreds of acres since the 1880s. They’ve buried their family members on the land. The U.S….
Today a federal judge blocked implementation of EPA rules which would have required mapping of small waterways on private land. The case will proceed; however, the rules have been temporarily blocked.
July 9, 2015, Information Intelligence:
27 states and state agencies, as well as 14 agriculture-oriented organizations, have filed lawsuits across teh country to block the EPA water mapping project.
The EPA is seeking to map water flows, including mapping of low…
Trans Pecos is building the international pipeline through Big Bend and ranch lands. One of those ranches believes pipeline representatives entered to survey without permission. This trespass included sinking stakes into the land.
As a result of the pipeline trespass…an impending lawsuit. Its a case of landmen gone wild, threatening cease and desist orders against land owners.