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Legislation making it more difficult for private utilities to acquire access to private property through condemnation cleared two Iowa subcommittees.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development may issue eminent domain related rules.

The Florida Supreme Court is considering whether a statute used to calculate attorneys’ fees in Florida eminent domain cases is unconstitutional when applied in the event of excessive litigation by the condemning authority.

This matrix, prepared by Dirk Haire and Farah Shah, is provided as a general description of circumstances that construction contractors may face in connection with a partial government shutdown.

The New Jersey Appellate Division recently held that Hoboken cannot designate an 11.5-acre site in the city as an "area in need of rehabilitation."

Mary Therese O’Sullivan’s article "Home Is Where the Art Is: The Impact That Housing Laws and Gentrification Policies Have Had on the Availability and Affordability of Live/Work Spaces" was published in the Spring 2013 issue of Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law.

The gap between homeowner and appraiser opinions of home values has nearly doubled since May, according to mortgage lender Quicken Loans.

National Mortgage News has reported that HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan stated at a Politico event that the legality of the use of eminent domain to force the sale of mortgages should be decided by the courts.

A unanimous Illinois Supreme Court ruled that temporary flooding can cause a taking under the Illinois Constitution.

According to Interthinx, Inc., a subsidiary of First American Financial Corporation, the "National Mortgage Fraud Risk Index" increased 3 percent from the last quarter, and is unchanged from one year ago.

The Iowa House of Representatives recently passed a bill restricting the ability of independent transmission developer to exercise their power of eminent domain.

A Federal Judge agreed with a federally appointed commission’s $1.5 million appraisal of what is now the Flight 93 National Memorial property.

In 2005, the US Supreme Court issued one of its most controversial decisions.

Maryland's highest court recently held that the tax court can value a property by relying on sale prices of comparable properties bought soon after a cutoff date for the assessment.

Legislation has been proposed in both Missouri Houses that could prevent the use of eminent domain for privately funded, long distance, Direct Current transmission lines.

The North Carolina House of Representatives has passed legislation to amend the state Constitution to limit certain eminent domain powers.

In In Re: David Orrin Nilsson (Van Meter v. Nilsson), the Nevada Supreme Court was asked by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada to clarify whether someone can properly claim a homestead exemption for his or her interest in real property when he/she does not reside at the property but his/her minor children do.