Month: October 2018

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals holds Uniform Relocation Act does not create a private cause of action

By Ross Greene|2018-10-24T20:44:15+00:00October 24th, 2018|Uncategorized|

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found last month that the Uniform Relocation Act does not create a private cause of action against the displacing agency. In Osher v. City of St. Louis, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 25277, 2018 WL 4231794 (8th Cir. September 6th, 2018), the Eighth Circuit indicated that “Insofar as [the Eighth [...]

The Business Relocation Conundrum

By David Arnold|2018-12-08T22:30:25+00:00October 9th, 2018|Uncategorized|

In January of 2017, I participated in a relocation roundtable with four other presenters at the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain Conference in San Diego. As usual, I offered my perspective from that of the condemning authority’s point of view, which I thought was a reasonable and objective based on the text of the applicable law. [...]