April 2025

Is a Deer You Keep on Your Land Your Deer? Not in Texas Anyway

By |2025-04-29T10:01:18+00:00April 29th, 2025|Sovereign Immunity, Takings, Texas Law|

Earlier this month, the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifteenth District, Austin, issued its opinion in a dispute between the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (“TPWD”) and a white-tailed deer breeder. (Editor's Note: I can’t say I had personally ever heard of anyone breeding white-tailed deer before reading this opinion, as in Virginia and North [...]

March 2023

When the Hunter Becomes the Hunted

By |2023-03-17T00:09:44+00:00March 16th, 2023|Acquisitions, Eminent Domain, Governments, Texas Law|

[This blog post is based on an interview of Mayor Stephen Adler from Episode 60 of the Infrastructure Junkies podcast.  For a full replay of the recording, listen here. Those familiar with me in the eminent domain/ right-of-way industry know that my cynicism towards many landowner attorneys runs deep and wide. We who represent condemning [...]

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