When the government exercises its power of eminent domain to take private property for public use, the U.S. Constitution requires it to provide “just compensation” to the property owner. But what does ...

Last summer, I wrote a blog about why just compensation—which is based on the ‘objective’ standard of what a property would sell for on the open market—shortchanges residential property owners ...

From Justice Sotomayor's opinion today respecting denial of certiorari in Baker v. City of McKinney, joined by Justice Gorsuch: The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment provides that private property ...

Is expropriation in the exercise of the power of eminent domain limited only to the acquisition of private real property? How is just compensation computed and who has the power to determine it? These ...

CENTRALIA − U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley introduced his Just Compensation Act of 2023 on Wednesday after mid-Missourians were told they have to give up their land for the Tiger Connector of the Grain Belt ...

Can the government take private real property without just compensation? The answer is a big no. Article III, Section 9 of the Constitution states that private property shall not be taken for public ...

David Wick and his real estate partner, Roque De La Fuente, own a thousand acres of vacant property at the eastern edge of the 14-mile border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. There, in the ...