Sometimes, when facing long odds, you just have to swing for the fences and hope for the best. Landowners in the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline took just such a wild swing with a lawsuit they filed in a D.C. federal court. They sought a ruling that Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, lacked the [...]
The Virginia Supreme Court issued its opinion in Hooked Group, LLC v. City of Chesapeake today, ultimately affirming the trial court’s dismissal of the landowner’s case. The facts of the case and contentions of the parties have been described previously on this blog here and here. In short, the landowner, Hooked Group, LLC, owned a [...]
Back in March of this year, I published an article about how relocation agents and agencies are increasingly met with the threat of legal action. That article argued that relocation agents and agencies are not the proper target of litigation. Fortunately, the Virginia Supreme Court now appears to have agreed with that position. Fernandez v. [...]
It's official. In Virginia you cannot sue the displacing agency directly under the Virginia Relocation Assistance Act - the state counterpart to the federal Uniform Relocation Act. The Virginia Supreme Court issued its ruling today in Michael Fernandez, D.D.S., Ltd., a Division of Atlantic Dental Care, PLC v. Commissioner of Highways. The case [...]
The North Carolina Supreme Court recently upheld a trial court decision in an inverse condemnation case where recordation of a highway corridor map was determined to be worth almost the entire value of the subject property. Under North Carolina’s Roadway Corridor Official Map Act (the “Map Act”), the NCDOT could record a map in [...]