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Eminent domain [a], also known as land acquisition, [b] ... to be noncompensable in eminent domain. The same is true of attorneys' and appraisers fees.
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 Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act (1970) ("URA") was passed by the U.S. federal government in 1970. It was intended to ensure fair compensation and assistance for those whose property was compulsorily acquired for public use under eminent domain law.
City commissioners voted unanimously Oct. 2 to approve the use of eminent domain, if needed, ... John said he will hire an attorney as the two parties will likely head to mediation. There, a third ...
Jul. 29—ROCHESTER — A unanimous four-judge panel of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department in Rochester has rejected arguments from Niagara Falls Redevelopment ...
Theodore Woodard, a 62-year-old retired air conditioner installer, said he'd welcome the help on his five-bedroom home in Fontana. So far, he and his wife have kept up with monthly $3,100 payments ...
Market value is the prevailing, but not exclusive measure of determining the just compensation owed to a landowner under the Fifth Amendment. Fair Market Value is defined by appraisers as the most probable price, in terms of cash that would be paid by a willing buyer to a willing seller, each being fully informed of the property's good and bad features, with the property being exposed on the ...
Inverse condemnation is a legal concept and cause of action used by property owners when a governmental entity takes an action which damages or decreases the value of private property without obtaining ownership of the property through the use of eminent domain. Thus, unlike the typical eminent domain case, the property owner is the plaintiff ...