Eminent Domain Inverse Condemnation

The Eminent Domain Practice Group represents property and business owners whose property or business is impacted by a “taking” under the government’s power of eminent domain.  The clients of this practice group range from national oil companies, drug stores, and restaurants to owners of single family homes and everything in between, including owners and developers of shopping centers, warehouses, condominiums, apartments, office buildings, etc.  Owners of special purpose properties, such as broadcast facilities, churches, fast food restaurants and similar “single purpose” properties regularly consult with the attorneys in this Practice Group well in advance of the governmental “taking” of their properties so that their rights are properly protected.

In addition, the attorneys in this group have experience recognizing when governmental over-regulation of property becomes so restrictive as to amount, in law, to a “taking,” even when property is not physically appropriated and the government does not formally announce its intention to condemn.  In such circumstances inverse condemnation, or a suit against the government, is filed in order to seek a declaration that the governmental regulations are so confiscatory that they are, in fact, a “taking” of property or of property rights, requiring the payment of compensation to its owner.

Familiar with and sensitive to the concerns of condemning authorities, the Eminent Domain Practice Group knows the complex and challenging issues that arise when land must be acquired for a public purpose and works to resolve these issues on behalf of its clients.