{"id":165,"date":"2015-02-08T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/02\/08\/new-bill-filing-attorney-fees-imposed-against-losing-condeming-entities\/"},"modified":"2015-02-08T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T21:43:00","slug":"new-bill-filing-attorney-fees-imposed-against-losing-condeming-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/new-bill-filing-attorney-fees-imposed-against-losing-condeming-entities\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bill Filing: Attorney Fees Imposed Against Losing Condeming Entities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When eminent domain negotiations fail, the parties move to court. But, what happens when a court sides with a landowner and awards substantially more for their property?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/Text.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=SB474\"> SB 474<\/a> passes, a land owner that prevails with an award that is 10% higher than the last negotiated\u00a0offer\u00a0can have their attorney fees paid by the condeming entity.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s loser pay for eminent domain and applies to local governments as well as private companies that use eminent domain.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When eminent domain negotiations fail, the parties move to court. But, what happens when a court sides with a landowner and awards substantially more for their property?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/Text.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=SB474\"> SB 474<\/a> passes, a land owner that prevails with an award that is 10% higher than the last negotiated\u00a0offer\u00a0can have their attorney fees paid by the condeming entity.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s loser pay for eminent domain and applies to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,14,6,28,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-legal-trend","category-legislation-trend","category-pipelines-common-carriers","category-private-company","category-process-procedure","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}