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Usually when you think eminent domain, you think a governmental entity is trying to acquire land. The Mountain Water Company is facing eminent domain by Missoula, MT.
By all accounts, Mountain Water Company is privately owned and operated. [Missoula Independent] Legal fees in this eminent domain case for Missoula are $750,000 and th…
On Halloween, the Texas Supreme Court set December 1st as the deadline for response to the Petition for Mandamus in Eagle Ford Land Partners. Eagle Ford Land has a judgment for $1.6Million from a pipeline company that is not satisfied. Eagle Ford is asking the Texas Supreme Court to enforcement to judgement.
Property Rights advocates from the Farm Bureau to the WildLife Association to TPPF have lined up in support of Eagle Ford Rice Partners. [
Posted incompensation, pipelines/common carriers, private company, private property rights
There’s a new WalMart SuperCenter in the works for Longview. But, acquiring the land for access roads to get to the new SuperCenter is challenging. Landowners have not agreed to sell the necessary land to build the access roads. Whether building the roadways to benefit a for profit corporation falls within public use/purpose required for eminent domain will be decided by the courts if eminent domain is used. [
Posted ineconomic development, private company, private property rights, roads
Want to know what agricultural interests think about eminent domain? This article in the Progressive Cattleman outlines it. It walks you through these crucuial questions: Q: When can land be taken with eminent domain? A: When there is a public use. Q: How is a landowner compensated? A: Depends on how the land is taken, but if its a portion of the land, the land owner is generally compensated justly and adequately for the land taken and the impact on the rema… Private pipeline companies exercising eminent domain for common carrier pipelines isn’t only a Texas issue. A Lt. Gov. candidate in Massachusettes also raises the same private property rights concerns that draw the attention of Texas land owners. The Massachusettes candidate also throws in environmental concerns, but the private property rights concerns are identical. [The Recorder] A proposed new toll road in North Texas by the Texas Turnpike Corporation has garnered the attention of activists. Lots of activists. A public forum was shut down by the Fire Marshall. The next public forum included heated and vocal opposition. Last week there was an organized protest by Texas TURF. And now Breitbart, the same organization for which Michael Quinn Sullivan writes, posted in opposition to the toll road. Besides the disdain for toll roads, the proposed North … Thousands of years ago salt was a valuable commodity. Empires were built on salt. Today, the Tax Foundation uses a George Mason University Eminent Domain Paper to empirically state that eminent domain is not worth it. The Tax Foundation highlights that eminent domain has a negative relationship with economic revenue growth. “The gamble against private property rights rarely pays off.” Hear that sound? It’s the printers of private property rights advocates printing this pa… Local governments are paying attention to the robust public input on a North Texas private toll road project by the Texas Turnpike Corporation. To translate lawyer speak- robust public input means angry voters. This week the town of Wylie called a special council meeting & voted to OPPOSE a private toll road, which gives the private corporation eminent domain authority. Texans don’t like private toll roads. Texans dislike private companies using eminent domain & building private t…Eminent Domain for Access to WalMart in Longview?
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Private companies exercising eminent domain is eerily familiar to the TransTexas Corridor. TransTexas Corridor brought an emergence of grassroots groups opposed to a private, foreign company being granted the power of eminent domain. The Legislature ended the TransTexas Corridor years ago. But, private tollroad companies still exist, including The Texas Turnpike Corporation. It has proposed a new Northeast Gateway Toll Project. Vocal opposition to this project caused the first public mee…