{"id":316,"date":"2015-07-28T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/07\/28\/city-official-comments-on-paying-landowner-attorney-fees-in-eminent-domain\/"},"modified":"2015-07-28T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T21:39:00","slug":"city-official-comments-on-paying-landowner-attorney-fees-in-eminent-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/city-official-comments-on-paying-landowner-attorney-fees-in-eminent-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"City Official Comments on Paying Landowner Attorney Fees in Eminent Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma want to remove the statutory requirement that if landwoners at trial receive a value 10% higher than the special commissioners, then the local government has to pay the landwoner fees and expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Paying attorney fees and expenses led to this comment by a Tulsa official:\u00a0&#8220;That 10 percent rule is basically a pain in the neck,&#8221; Swiney said. &#8220;I think it leads to abuse. It leads to bill padding. It discourages settlement and encourages litigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicradiotulsa.org\/post\/city-may-seek-changes-oklahomas-eminent-domain-laws#stream\/0\">Public Radio Tulsa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma want to remove the statutory requirement that if landwoners at trial receive a value 10% higher than the special commissioners, then the local government has to pay the landwoner fees and expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Paying attorney fees and expenses led to this comment by a Tulsa official:\u00a0&#8220;That 10 percent rule is basically a pain in the neck,&#8221; Swiney said. &#8220;I think it leads to abuse. It leads to bill padding. It discourages settlement and encourages litigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicradiotulsa.org\/post\/city-may-seek-changes-oklahomas-eminent-domain-laws#stream\/0\">Public Radio&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,14,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compensation","category-legal-trend","category-legislation-trend","category-local-government-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}