When public projects are being constructed, surrounding property owners typically experience construction impacts, such as noise, dust, fumes, vibration, and road detours. Typically, absent a physical ...

Article 1, Section 17 of the Texas Constitution: “[n]o person’s property shall be taken, damaged, or destroyed for or applied to public use without adequate compensation being made…” This blog will ...

Acquires the property in a direct sale with the owner’s consent. Initiates a proceeding to condemn the property through its powers of eminent domain (known as a direct condemnation or eminent domain ...

Court: No Property-Specific Eminent Domain Power Is Necessary to Implicate Inverse Condemnation Under the Eminent Domain Code, a property owner asserting that a de facto taking of property has ...