{"id":3664,"date":"2026-07-09T23:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2026-07-09T23:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:07:35","slug":"rating-texas-eminent-domain-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/rating-texas-eminent-domain-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Rating Texas eminent domain laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ij.org\/issues\/private-property\/eminent-domain\/texas-eminent-domain-laws\/\">The Institute for Justice<\/a> gave Texas eminent domain laws a B-. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/texas-and-eminent-domain-law-better-than-elsewhere-but-still-room-for-improvement\/\">R Street<\/a> notes issues that Texas should fix including clearing up grey areas of public use, limiting court deference to municipalities in declaring a public use, and eminent domain use by private entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">R Street refers readers to the State GOP Party call for eminent domain restrictions, the infighting among republicans on this issue in Texas, and point to Justice O\u2019Conner\u2019s opinion in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/545\/469\/\">Kelo<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Justice gave Texas eminent domain laws a B-. R Street notes issues that Texas should fix including clearing up grey areas of public use, limiting court deference to municipalities in declaring a public use, and eminent domain use by private entities. R Street refers readers to the State GOP Party call for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}