When the government exercises its power of eminent domain to take private property for public use, the U.S. Constitution requires it to provide “just compensation” to the property owner. But what does ...

Last summer, I wrote a blog about why just compensation—which is based on the ‘objective’ standard of what a property would sell for on the open market—shortchanges residential property owners ...

A self-described "urban cowboy" is fighting a Georgia county over horses it seized from him years ago. The last clause of the Fifth Amendment is straightforward: “nor shall private property be taken ...

From Justice Sotomayor's opinion today respecting denial of certiorari in Baker v. City of McKinney, joined by Justice Gorsuch: The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment provides that private property ...

CENTRALIA − U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley introduced his Just Compensation Act of 2023 on Wednesday after mid-Missourians were told they have to give up their land for the Tiger Connector of the Grain Belt ...

My grandparents’ house was located along a national road. The property was transferred to my father after he got married. Unfortunately, sometime in the 1990s, a large portion of the property was ...