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Background:
Campaign TREND.
Where: Muskogee Oklahoma
What propety was taken for what type of project? To expand the parking lot of a VA Call Center, the City took a residential property
What did the residential landowners tell the court? that the taking was to “serve a private purpose deprived them of a property interest without due process in violation of state and federal constitutions”
What did the city say was the reason for the parking lot? Safety and transportation
The appellate court: An agreement between the…
To support state action for short term rentals, supporters are touting: Arizona’s Private Property Rights Protection Act
Why is Arizona’s Private Property Rights Protection Act so important? It allows land owners to be reminursed when regulations decreate their proeprty values, which with certain common-sense exceptions
The Hill | Grassroot Institute of Hawaii | Property rights include the right to rent it out — even if others don’t like it
Texas Attorney General Opinion Request: RQ-0219-KP
Requestor: Lyle Larson
Question the Attorney General Office is to answer: Does Chapter 75, Title 4 ofthe Civil Practice and Remedies Code apply to private property owners on whose property agro-tourism related private aircraft lands?
Local Trend: Local Ride Share Ordinances
Legal Trend: In San Francisco, Financial Institutions are suing over the loan value of the city’s $250,000 taxi medallions which local ride share ordinances diminished the value of the medallions
Lege Trend: Leveling the playing field so that ride share and taxis are regulated equally
ABC 7 San Francisco | Credit union suing San Francisco over ‘worthless’ taxi medallions
What issue are legal property rights centers looking at? is there a public good, for eminent domain purposes, when the public that benefits from the exported good is Europe or China?
What does this have to do with eminent domain? Pipelines, such as those that feed a LNG Export Center, are often uilt with the use of the power of eminent domain.
To exercize eminent domain constitutionally there must be a public use/public purpose for the land
How are property rights legal exeperts looking to…
Colorado Courts are grappling with “eminent domain creep.”
What’s eminent domain creep? Extending eminent domain through judicial opinion.
What’s the issue in Colorado? City A wants to buy land outside its city limits for open space and then annex the land into City A and offer developers tax incentives. City B opposes the land transaction and wants to use eminent domain to take the land for open space.
A fedceral appeals court will rule whether the power of eminent domain for a pipeline in Ohio.
What do I need to know?
Background: Atlantic Coast Pipeline contractors seek access to property to begin tree-cutting, Landowners are asking a court to prevent the tree cutting.
What court? US District Court Judge Terence Boyle, a George HW Bush appointee, in the Eastern District of North Carolina
The court sides with the landowners and said:
What pre-requisities on eminent domain use are detailed by the court to…
State: Idaho
Trespass Revision Bill that streamlines criminal, civil and parks & wildlife trespass statutes: HB 658 (2018)
The Attorney General Opinion: Inquiry on HB 658 | Attorney General Lawrence Wasden & March 2018 Inquiry on HB 658 | Attorney General Lawrence Wasden
The 1st Amendment Issues Raised by the Idaho Attorney General: Whether the bill passes muster with the 9th Circuit’s overturning of Idaho’s Agricultural Gag law