San Marcos residents want more parkland, but not higher taxes
More than 51 percent of votes counted so far were in oppositiong to the city using eminent domain to secure the site, and about 65 percent of some 4,900 voters oppose the city raising property…
Rusk County makes deadline on eminent domain
“Rusk County Commissioners approved a recommendation from the Texas Association of Counties Thursday morning in order to retain the county’s power of eminent domain. Had commissioners not filed a report with the state Comptroller by…
PISD board gets behind eminent domain move
“The Plainview Independent School District Board of Trustees has decided to join what appears to be the majority of Texas school districts and protect their rights to seize property under eminent domain. According to PISD…
Sunoco pipeline from Houston-Delmont may use eminent domain
Sunoco officials told about 85 residents on Wednesday that the company can use eminent domain to install a proposed pipeline under their land but it hopes not to do so. “We ship a product for the…
Eleanor Fairchild was joined by actress Darryl Hannah to protest the Keystone XL pipeline on her ranch
“Eleanor Fairchild, a 78-year-old great-grandmother, was arrested late last week for trespassing on her own land. Fairchild was standing in the path of bulldozers on her 300-acre ranch in Winnsboro, Texas — the site of…
Round Rock may use eminent domain to complete downtown parking lot
“Strip by strip, the city has been purchasing land — about $300,000 worth so far — off Lampasas Street behind the Main Street Grill to build the roughly 50-space lot. But the owner of the…
Landowner plans to appeal eminent-doman ruling on Keystone XL pipeline
“A Northeast Texas farmer, is fighting to keep TransCanada, the pipeline owner, from invoking the right of eminent domain to cross her property. A judge in Lamar County ruled against her last month, but Crawford…
Texas judge rules in favor of TransCanada in eminent domain case
“A judge in Lamar County, Texas, ruled Wednesday night that TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline has the right of eminent domain, rejecting a plea by farm manager Julia Trigg Crawford and dealing a blow to landowners…
No Person Shall Be Deprived of Life, Liberty or Property… Unless the Oil and Gas Industry Says So
“The state legislature of North Carolina recently legalized fracking. Yet, what some residents may not know is that North Carolina’s eminent domain law allows some private entities to take private property for certain uses. This…
Lamar County Texas pipeline hearing awaits ruling
“A judge in Paris holds the fates of a North Texas landowner and a Canadian pipeline company after a hearing Friday over whether an eminent domain claim goes to full trial. Meanwhile, crews who will…