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Family Ranch and Easement Agreements

Around this time two years ago, I attended a family wedding that stands out in my memory for a few reasons. First, it was a “deep pandemic” wedding – rescheduled twice, outdoor-only, with a drastically scaled-down guest list and favors of hand sanitizer reading “in...

Infrastructure in Houston’s East End

I remember thinking “this is an unusual place” as I drove down a sparsely-populated-for-rush-hour stretch of Leeland past the Oak Farms plant to visit my then-boyfriend at his Eastwood bungalow over ten years ago. The sproutings of town home farms transitioned to...

Valuing Property in Development

Over the last 20 years, I have presented many times at the Eminent Domain SuperConference in Austin, Texas at the invitation of my colleagues at Barron & Adler (now Barron, Adler, Clough & Oddo). This year I addressed “sticky wickets,” those difficult compensation...

Suing the Government

Suing the government is hard. In fact, unlike suing anyone or anything else, suing the government is usually prevented outright by a handy little feature from the English common law called sovereign immunity. As Alexander Hamilton explained it, “[i]t is inherent in...

How fast will high-speed rail spread?

There are currently projects to build high-speed rail lines in Texas. These are going to create all sorts of new opportunities for travel, and they will hopefully reduce the dependency on cars and trucks. While trains and steam engines were instrumental in the...

Is “just compensation” really enough?

Eminent domain laws allow the government to procure land that they need for certain projects. For instance, if a freeway is being expanded, they may have to take land that is owned by nearby small businesses, and they do have the legal right to do this when the...

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