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If the government wants to take your California home through an eminent domain claim, it must provide just compensation. However, in some cases, the government may owe you money based on actions that might rise to the level of an inverse condemnation. The burden of...
The Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause requires state and federal government entities to provide property owners in California and around the country with just compensation when they exercise their eminent domain powers. Government entities are also required to...
The Fifth Amendment establishes a government's right to take private land if needed for public use. The landowner is entitled to receive fair market value plus damages for the property. In California, public utilities, redevelopment agencies and federal, state, county...
The eminent domain process allows government agencies in California to obtain private property for public uses like building infrastructure or laying utility lines. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution require government agencies to make fair...
The eminent domain battle between California American Water and the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, also known as the District, shows no signs of being resolved any time soon. California American Water announced it will fight the case and continue to...
An eminent domain battle is brewing in California’s Central Valley. A fruit stand that has been operating in Riverbank for 30 years sits on five acres of land that Stanislaus County executives want to acquire for a major highway construction project, and local...
Property owners in California and around the country may be aware that the government can use the power of eminent domain to take private property and convert it to public use. Local, state and federal governments usually use eminent domain to acquire land to build...
Multiple wildfires that caused substantial damage to California towns have been connected to missteps by electric utilities. Property owners rightly want compensation for damages that would not have happened if utility companies had acted with greater care. The legal...
Eminent domain in California is a means by which the government takes over property. Despite its necessity in some cases, eminent domain often comes with opposition. A case in Monterey highlights how this process works. The eminent domain case in Monterey Monterey...
Does the federal government want to use your California property for public use? Taking private property for public use is known as eminent domain. Even if you don’t want to sell, it’s legal for the federal government to claim your property in exchange for payment....