{"id":186,"date":"2015-03-10T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/03\/10\/attorneys-fees-in-eminent-domain-cases-gets-quick-hearing-in-senate\/"},"modified":"2015-03-10T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:46:00","slug":"attorneys-fees-in-eminent-domain-cases-gets-quick-hearing-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/attorneys-fees-in-eminent-domain-cases-gets-quick-hearing-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorneys Fees in Eminent Domain Cases Gets Quick Hearing in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0This week, Sen. Kolkhorst&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=SB00474\">SB 474 \u00a0<\/a>, received a hearing in Senate State Affairs. To commemorate the occasion, TPPF released a paper supporting her bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TPPF offers 4 Key Points on why reimbursing property owners for fees and costs of eminent domain litigation is good public policy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Texas property owners cannot rely on legislative oversight or the political process to protect them from negligent and abusive condemnation practices.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>High litigation costs prevent Texas property owners from vindicating their right to adequate compensation in court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Reimbursing attorney fees would enable Texans to pursue their rights and blow the whistle on the misuse of eminent domain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The Legislature should require courts to award legal fees to property owners if the final compensation for a condemned property is 10 percent or more greater than the initial offer. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/library\/doclib\/The-landowners-strike-back.pdf\">TPPF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0This week, Sen. Kolkhorst&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=SB00474\">SB 474 \u00a0<\/a>, received a hearing in Senate State Affairs. To commemorate the occasion, TPPF released a paper supporting her bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TPPF offers 4 Key Points on why reimbursing property owners for fees and costs of eminent domain litigation is good public policy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Texas property owners cannot rely on legislative oversight or the political process to &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,14,2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-compensation","category-legislation-trend","category-private-property-rights","category-process-procedure","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}