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11/17/2007

Eminent domain winners must pay $96,000

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By Steve Kemme A Hamilton County [OH] Court judge ruled Tuesday that the owners of one of the two remaining buildings on the proposed Roo...

Group in Akron for eminent domain fight: Akron OH Beacon Journal, 9/27/07

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By John Higgins A national organization that fights the government taking of private land for private development is in Akron today to infor...

Officials Boost Columbia Expansion: New York NY Sun, 9/27/07

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By Eliot Brown As Columbia University takes its proposed 17-acre expansion before the City Planning Commission and the City Council in comin...

Dover council shoots down eminent domain resolution: Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover NH, 9/27/07

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By Leslie Modica A local man won a two-year battle Wednesday night to stop a resolution by the city [of Dover NH] seeking to acquire 12,000-...

Renewal of eminent domain called illegal: San Diego CA Union-Tribune, 9/26/07

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By Tanya Sierra Lawyers representing a youth boxing program filed a lawsuit against the city of National City [CA] yesterday, alleging the w...

Eminent Domain Issue Forces Colorado Land Dispute Property Owner Jack Hanna to Say, Not For Sale to County: EWORLDWIRE, 9/25/07

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In a surprise move, the County of Clear Creek, Colorado, recently condemned Boulder resident and retired Michigan real estate developer Jack...

Judge Rules Norwood, Developer Must Pay In Eminent Domain Case: WCPO-TV9, Cincinnati OH, 9/25/07

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The City of Norwood [OH] and a developer must pay a local couple for illegally using eminent domain to take their small business. Last year,...

EDC asks state to OK pipeline eminent domain: Bloomington IL Pantagraph, 9/25/07

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By Scott Miller The Economic Development Council of the Bloomington-Normal A[IL] rea has asked a state agency to approve an eminent-domain r...

Business owners don't want to budge: Fresno CA Bee, 9/23/07

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By Matt Leedy The Baskin family has been fixing up car seats and selling parts in downtown Fresno for 90 years, and fourth-generation owner ...

Couple Awarded More Money in Eminent Domain Case: WSAZ-TV3, Charleston WV, 9/20/07

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By Associated Press A jury has decided that a Sissonville [WV] couple whose land was seized by the Kanawha County school board two years ago...

Eminent domain measure rejected: Ventura County CA Star, 9/21/07

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Moorpark will consider other ways to revitalize downtown By Anna Bakalis Now that buying properties through eminent domain is not an option ...

Little Chute denies request to use eminent domain: Appleton WI Post-Crescent, 9/21/07

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Village officials hope to aid talks with farmers for developer's access By J. E. Espino Eminent domain issues do not arise often in Litt...

Eminent Domain Opposed for New Subway: New York NY Sun, 9/21/07

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Mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis, who owns the Gristedes supermarket chain, may fight the state's attempt to condemn part of his superm...

City invokes eminent domain for mall: Toledo OH Free Press, 9/21/07

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By Duane Ramsey The City of Toledo's proposed use of eminent domain for taking the Southwyck Mall properties for redevelopment will be t...

City property owners treated unfairly: Ithaca NY Journal, 9/21/07

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Guest column By Robert Andree and Angelo DiGiacomo We represent two businesses located in the west end of the City of Ithaca. Andree Petrole...
11/16/2007

San Francisco Uses Eminent Domain to Build Pot Farm: Official News Agency (San Francisco CA), 11/1/07

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By Angela Berera They wouldn't sell at any price. Now it doesn't matter. After four generations of Davidsons owning Orchards by th...

Council set to seize Main Street property: New Britain CT Herald, 9/20/07

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By Rick Guinness [New Britain] Council members are gearing up to seize Main Street property for a new police station. At a meeting next week...

Landowners threatened by eminent domain abuse: Cherry Hill NJ Courier-Post, 9/19/07

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Opinion Some of what is taking place throughout the United States is surprising. Take for example, the legally authorized abuse of eminent d...

Flooded Oakmont Commons residents seek help: Pittsburgh PA Tribune-Review, 9/18/07

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By Karen Zapf Residents of Oakmont Commons, a townhouse development that has been flooded, implored representatives from Allegheny County Mo...

University cleared to use eminent domain for arena: University of Oregon Daily Emerald, 9/17/07

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Administrators still hope not to obtain land by force despite permission from higher education board By Allie Grasgreen The University is on...