{"id":428,"date":"2015-12-13T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/12\/13\/lege-trend-constitutional-right-to-attorney-fees-in-eminent-domain\/"},"modified":"2015-12-13T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T17:29:00","slug":"lege-trend-constitutional-right-to-attorney-fees-in-eminent-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/lege-trend-constitutional-right-to-attorney-fees-in-eminent-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Constitutional Right to Attorney Fees in Eminent Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A state constitution guarantees attorney fees in eminent domain?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, the Florida\u00a0constitution does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the goal behind this provision?<\/strong>\u00a0A landowner should not be placed in a worse position after eminent domain<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can this provision go awry?<\/strong>\u00a0Some Florida attorneys believe so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What loophole exists for constitutional protection for attorney fees in eminent domain proceedings? <\/strong>When a condemning entity does not play fair and forces needless and endless litigation. The Florida\u00a0courts deemed a\u00a0condemning entity&#8217;s tactics to include excessive litigation. Even with this ruling favoring land owners, the court \u00a0did not allow for attorney fees to combat the improper litigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/florida-eminentdomain.com\/?p=291\">The Florida Eminent Domain Blog |\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/florida-eminentdomain.com\/?p=291\" style=\"color:rgb(24,24,72);text-decoration:none;border:none;\" title=\"Permanent Link to Florida\u2019s Supreme Court Levels the Playing Field.\">Florida\u2019s Supreme Court Levels the Playing Field.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridasupremecourt.org\/decisions\/2015\/sc14-1007.pdf\" style=\"color:rgb(104,8,104);text-decoration:none;\">Doerr v. Central Florida Expressway Authority<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexology.com\/library\/detail.aspx?g=ba3204fe-8b1a-49ee-bd04-60ac600e3d3d\">Lexology<em>|\u00a0<\/em>Eminent Domain and Attorneys\u2019 Fees: The Case for Excessive Litigation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A state constitution guarantees attorney fees in eminent domain?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, the Florida\u00a0constitution does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the goal behind this provision?<\/strong>\u00a0A landowner should not be placed in a worse position after eminent domain<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can this provision go awry?<\/strong>\u00a0Some Florida attorneys believe so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What loophole exists for constitutional protection for attorney fees in eminent domain proceedings? <\/strong>When a condemning entity does not play fair and forces needless and endless litigation. The Florida\u00a0courts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-process-procedure","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}