This system comes with a number of benefits — it can save money by making it easier to adjust a project in progress, for instance — but also changes the playing field for eminent domain cases, the attorney argued.
Her mother is an assistant New York attorney general in the real property bureau in Hauppauge, N.Y.; she handles eminent domain cases for the state.
A government official with knowledge of the permitting process who would address the issue only on condition of anonymity said, "It is presumptuous for the company to take on eminent domain cases before there is any decision made".
Commerce, which was a corollary to economic vitality, had always been a concern in eminent domain cases, but in Kelo, New London, Conn., argued that the public-use provision could be satisfied via private economic development.
Situations such as the one near Altamonte Springs are one side effect of a change in how FDOT approaches many road projects, says a Jacksonville-based attorney experienced in eminent domain cases.
A motion was filed today for a reargument based on the conflicting decision concerning the finding of "blight" made Dec. 3 in the Appellate Division in the Columbia University eminent domain case, a veritable twin to the Atlantic Yards case.
A4 NATIONAL A14-20 Justices Back GovernmentIn Eminent Domain Case In one of its most closely watched property rights cases in years, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that fostering economic development is an appropriate use of the government's power of eminent domain.
(The eminent domain case Kelo v. City of New London, for instance, provoked a populist outcry in 2005).
Georgia has seen no eminent-domain cases in the past seven years; Atlanta is overwhelmed by growth.
MRP would drum up private investment to finance the mortgage purchases at prices determined in court (as in all eminent-domain cases).
