by admin | Nov 7, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
This week, the Federal Circuit held oral argument in the appeal of an important Fifth Amendment taking case where the federal government took private landowners’ property in Missouri for a public recreational rail-trail. The lower court erroneously held that, even...
by admin | Oct 5, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
On October 3, the Supreme Court will begin its new term by hearing an important property rights case, Sackett v. EPA. True North Law’s Steve Davis breaks down the case in this article published in the American Bar Association’s Supreme Court Preview magazine. Steve...
by admin | Sep 8, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
True North’s amicus brief asks the Court to take up and overturn the decision of the Fifth Circuit, which wrongly held the government doesn’t need to compensate landowners unless and until the legislature appropriates the compensation. True North Law filed an amicus...
by admin | Sep 6, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
Following a trial in Atlanta, Georgia, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims has issued its decision awarding the plaintiff-landowners the full value of their property taken by the federal government for the creation of a recreational rail-trail across their properties....
by admin | Sep 6, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
Federal appeal stems from pipeline company’s refusal to fully compensate the landowner under Florida law, including payment of attorney fees. In Sabal Trail Transmission v. 18.27 Acres, the pipeline company only offered to pay the Thomas family a fraction of the value...
by admin | Apr 29, 2022 | Constitutional Law, Property Rights
About 200 Sarasota landowners whose property was taken for the development of the northern extension of the Legacy Trail public recreational rail-trail filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims asking the court to hold the federal government liable for taking...
