{"id":1276,"date":"2019-05-21T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2019\/05\/21\/legal-trend-roads-the-loophole-in-texas-eminent-domain-laws\/"},"modified":"2019-05-21T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T03:55:00","slug":"legal-trend-roads-the-loophole-in-texas-eminent-domain-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/legal-trend-roads-the-loophole-in-texas-eminent-domain-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal TREND. Roads. The loophole in Texas Eminent Domain Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Supreme Court ruled that local transportation projects are exempt from the 2005 Kelo fix to Texas eminent domain laws.<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>What part of the law did the Court find the exception in?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[t]his section does not affect the authority of an entity authorized by law to take private property through the use of eminent domain for: (1)\u2002transportation projects, including, but not limited to, railroads, airports, or public roads or highways&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; what are legal types saying? potentially all roads are excepted from the Kelo related limitations on eminent domain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inversecondemnation.com\/files\/170850.pdf\">KMS RETAIL\u00a0ROWLETT, LP\u00a0v.\u00a0CITY OF\u00a0ROWLETT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inversecondemnation.com\/inversecondemnation\/2019\/05\/texas-transportation-projects-exempt-from-post-kelo-limitations-on-eminent-domain-power.html\">Owners Counsel |\u00a0Texas: Transportation Projects Exempt From Post-<em>Kelo<\/em>Limitations On Eminent Domain Power<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Supreme Court ruled that local transportation projects are exempt from the 2005 Kelo fix to Texas eminent domain laws.<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>What part of the law did the Court find the exception in?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[t]his section does not affect the authority of an entity authorized by law to take private property through the use of eminent domain for: (1)\u2002transportation projects, including, but not limited to, railroads, airports, or public roads or highways&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; what are legal types saying? potentially all\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eminent-domain","category-legal-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}