Over the past year, we have tracked a few bills that if passed would affect property rights, real estate transactions, and eminent domain in Virginia. On February 7, 2019, the General Assembly passed Senate Bill 1422, in response to The Game Place, L.L.C., et al. v. Fredericksburg 35, LLC,[1] a case we pointed out in [...]
Most people in the Virginia eminent domain bar already know that the statewide eminent domain CLE is held at the Tides Inn in Irvington, Virginia, each year. The conference will be held at the same absolutely beautiful venue again for this year, May 2-3, 2019. We expect the usual potpourri of interesting topics in takings, [...]
Last December, we raised the question of whether condemnation of oyster leases as a result of the elevation of fecal coliform could result in a constitutional taking. Oyster leases have been a hot topic of discussion lately, particularly here in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Clearly they are at the epicenter of competing property rights and [...]