Property Rights
& Eminent Domain
Protecting Your 5th Amendment rights
Ensuring Just Compensation
True North Law’s partners are nationally recognized for their expertise representing property owners in eminent domain and property rights litigation against the federal government, as well as state and local government.
As a nationally-recognized leader in property rights litigation, Thor helped write the book on Trails-To-Rails litigation, earning an exclusive spot on the National Owner’s Council as the National representative.
If you want to ensure you are justly compensated when the government takes your land, you need True North Law.
Decades Of Experience
National Leaders In Property Rights Litigation.
Defending your property rights and enforcing the government’s obligation to justly compensate you and other property owners is a specialized area of constitutional law and federal litigation. True North Law’s eminent domain and property rights litigation team, led by Thor Hearne, represent (or have represented) thousands of property owners throughout the nation in this unique field of constitutional and property law.
Trails Act Litigation
Eminent Domain
Property Rights
Cases & Briefs
Our Experience
Big Win for Landowner in Case Where True North Law Filed Influential Amicus Brief
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Caquelin v. United States recently ruled unanimously in favor of an Iowa landowner whose property was taken by the federal government under the Trails Act for a public recreational rail-trail. Lawyers...
Sarasota Landowners Ask Court to Enjoin Removal of “Encroachments”
In conjunction with the recently-filed lawsuit asking the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida to stop Sarasota County from removing “encroachments” from the Legacy Trail right-of-way, Thor Hearne and True North Law filed a motion for preliminary...
True North Law Files Federal Lawsuit on behalf of landowners to stop Sarasota County from removing Legacy Trail “Encroachments”
Thor Hearne and True North Law have filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida to stop Sarasota County from removing what the county calls “encroachments” on the Legacy Trail corridor. The lawsuit asks the judge to enter a...
Bloomberg Law article on the Court of Appeals Decision
The owners of land adjacent to a former railroad line converted to a hiking trail under the rails-to-trails program will have another chance to pursue takings claims after the Federal Circuit said the government failed to prove that the landowners didn’t own the...
True North Wins Significant Victory for Landowners in the Federal Circuit
True North represents Miami, Florida landowners whose property the Federal government took under the federal Trails Act. The federal Trails Act imposes a new easement for public recreation and a future possible railroad across landowners’ property. The United States...
Major Win in the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
In a unanimous panel opinion, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in our favor that a property owner is qualified to testify at trial regarding the value of her property, including severance damages, when a natural gas pipeline company took her property by eminent...
Success Story
“Mr. Hearne,
We appreciate your work in representing the homeowners along the Legacy Trail in Mission Valley, Nokomis, FL. The case was Rogers v. U.S. Over a decade-long fight your firm held fast and was successful. Thanks!”
