Condemning authorities have long taken the position that the federal Uniform Relocation Act--and by extension the Virginia Relocation Act—confer no private right of action on behalf of a displaced person. In other words, a business or citizen cannot sue the agency directly for relocation benefits if the displacee claims they are insufficient or have been [...]
Senate Bill 485, the previously-described bill that originally would have allowed owners to simply declare their property to be an uneconomic remnant in partial take cases and that was amended to provide for separate litigation on that issue at an early stage of the condemnation case, has likely failed. On Monday, the Civil Subcommittee of [...]
The bill that would have imposed a moratorium on new natural gas pipeline construction in Virginia died without hearing or vote in the House Committee on Appropriations because it was not passed out of the House by “cross-over,” the date after which each house in the General Assembly may only consider bills originating in the [...]
As noted in a previous post, the Virginia General Assembly is currently considering a bill that, in its original form, would have allowed landowners to simply declare the residue of their land remaining after a partial take an uneconomic remnant and force localities acquiring such property for highway projects to take the owner’s entire parcel. [...]
A bill under consideration by the General Assembly of Virginia would incorporate elements of the federal Green New Deal Resolution into state law and prohibit new interstate pipeline projects in the state. House Bill 77 would, among other things, require the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy to adopt a Climate Action Plan to [...]