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DeVillier v. Texas, 601 U.S. 285 (2024), was a case that the Supreme Court of the United States decided on April 16, 2024. [1] [2] The case dealt with the Supreme Court's takings clause jurisprudence. Because the case touched on whether or not the 5th Amendment is self-executing, the case had implications for Trump v.
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.
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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.
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.
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 ...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission will hold a special meeting on June 10 to discuss using eminent domain to acquire Fairfield Lake State Park and the surrounding land.
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]