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Eminent domain has been used to acquire land from African-Americans for urban renewal redevelopments [25] and in other cases to dispossess them and remove them from areas where their presence was not desired by white neighbors, e.g. Bruce's Beach subdivision in Los Angeles, California. [26]
The Edwards Aquifer is the primary water source for much of southern central Texas. [1] Burrell Day and Joel McDaniel owned a 350-acre ranch in Van Ormy, Bexar County. [2] Under the Edwards Aquifer Authority Act (EAAA), landowners who had historically used Edwards Aquifer groundwater for irrigation purposes were assured of a minimum permit amount of 2 acre-feet of production per year per acre ...
Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another private owner to further economic development does not violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Usually, the state of Texas wins eminent domain cases. But in the case of Fairfield Lake State Park, the state was beat out by a private developer from Dallas. Here’s how.
Jul. 27—The Texas Supreme Court recently affirmed in a 5-3 decision that Texas Central has the right to exercise eminent domain power in building the proposed high speed rail from Dallas to Houston.
Eminent domain [a], also known as land acquisition, [b] compulsory purchase, [c] resumption, [d] resumption/compulsory acquisition, [e] or expropriation [f], is the compulsory acquisition of private property for public use.
Fairfield Lake State Park is slated to become a private development. But another state lawmaker is now pushing to use eminent domain to take back the park land.
In 2000, Whittington began fighting a legal case involving the eminent domain seizure of a city block of property he owned in Austin. In 2013, after various court proceedings, a Texas district court awarded the title of the property to the city of Austin and ordered the city to pay Whittington $10,500,000 in compensation for the property. [10] [11]