MBS International Airport will pay $1.23 million to settle a land dispute with a Freeland man whose land the airport wants for its new passenger terminal project. The case between…
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On Thursday, Awdish shut down Frank’s Fast Break Sunoco at Crooks and South Boulevard after two years of trying to keep afloat. He blames road improvements in the area –…
Twenty-seven years ago, the city of Detroit and General Motors Corp.’s quest to obtain 465 acres of land to build a Cadillac plant in an old Hamtramck-Detroit neighborhood was adamantly…
A planned expansion of Detroit Metropolitan Airport is threatening to uproot thousands of people and dozens of businesses, but local officials and residents are fighting back. The Wayne County Airport…
The Michigan Supreme Court’s 2004 decision in County of Wayne v. Hathcock (Pinnacle Aeropark), along with subsequent changes in the Michigan constitution and administrative codes, reverses its locally and nationally…
The eminent-domain reform bill passed Tuesday by Colorado legislators puts the state on the front line of efforts this year to solve what has been recognized as a national problem….
The township is grappling with how it will ensure access to and from the island as a free bridge rapidly deteriorates and officials fight over the toll bridge. The township…
Nationally recognized eminent domain attorney Alan Ackerman is available to comment on Friday’s unanimous reversal of the “Poletown” decision, a controversial and oft-cited 1981 decision that is largely viewed as…
In a case that could redefine the power of Michigan governments to take property development projects, the state Supreme Court is revisiting its landmark 1981 decision that allowed the clearing…
Despite appeal, judge’s ruling in the Ice Mountain case has created the possibility of trampling private-property considerations and punishing job creators. It’s crucial for the future of our state to…
On September 28, 2004, the United States Supreme Court granted a property owner’s application for leave from a Connecticut Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the community’s taking of…
In the seminal case of Gibbons v. Ogden,1 the Supreme Court established that Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution2 embraced the power…
What part of the Constitution limits the power of eminent domain? The obvious answer is the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, which states “nor shall private property be taken…
The retention of an expert requires certain basic tenets, and if any are broken it is likely that the viability of a condemnation just compensation claim will be destroyed. Condemnation…
Property owners who lose a portion of their land in condemnation proceedings no longer have to endure the paradox of finding themselves worse off than if the entire parcel had…