The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of Missouri’s Heritage Value Statute that awards certain property owners a 50% increase over the fair market value of their property when … Read More

The Missouri Supreme Court blocked the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority from using eminent domain to expand its operations base on a 2006 Missouri law that prohibits governmental entities from … Read More

KCP&L (Kansas City Power & Light) is currently acquiring property for a new 345-kv electric transmission line from the Sibley, Missouri substation to Nebraska City, Nebraska. A new Mullin Creek … Read More

A California raisin farmer is standing up the the U.S. government against its practice of seizing a portion of his annual crop under a law that dates back to the … Read More

MoDOT is planning to improve Route 160 in Butler County and Ripley County. The improved Route 160 will include alternating passing lanes which include shoulders on Route 160 from Route … Read More

MoDOT is proposing improvements along Route 63 at the Liberty/Peterson Lane interchange and at the Route Y/M interchange. The project includes adding a J-turn on Route 63 just south of … Read More

In a New York Times Editorial, a Yale Professor has advocated the use of eminent domain as a means of eliminating “underwater” mortgages. His article states that some form of … Read More

The Missouri Supreme Court blocked the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority from using eminent domain to expand its operations base on a 2006 Missouri law that prohibits governmental entities from … Read More

The City of Kirkwood, in St. Louis County, Missouri, is considering redevelopment proposals for the intersection of Manchester Road and Lindbergh Boulevard (North Kirkwood Road), called the “north gateway” to … Read More

The principals of Denlow & Henry are scheduled to speak at seminars in St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri. The seminars are geared to educate attorneys and other professionals about the … Read More

MoDOT is proposing improvements to the intersection of Township Line Road and Route PP in Poplar Bluff, which will include the construction of a roundabout. MoDOT is also proposing improvements … Read More

The City of Brentwood is planning to improve Litzsinger Road. This federally-funded project consists of milling and overlay of the road surface, improving it with curbs and gutters, and acquiring … Read More

Recently, Robert Denlow of the St. Louis Eminent Domain law firm, Denlow & Henry was interviewed by Lee Presser on the topic of eminent domain law. Watch the interview… Read More

KCP&L (Kansas City Power & Light) is planning a new 345-kv electric transmission line from the Sibley, Missouri substation to Nebraska City, Nebraska. A new Mullin Creek substation is planned … Read More

In a joint victory in favor of free speech AND against eminent domain abuses, a the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has back a St. Louis man’s right to … Read More

U.S. Representative Russ Carnahan (D-MO) recently issued a press release calling out the City of Richmond Heights for its continued efforts to develop the Hadley Heights neighborhood:

“As Representative of the … Read More

St. Louis County, Missouri is preparing a study to improve Shackelford Road from Humes Lane to Charbonier Road for the purpose of reducing accidents by widening Shackelford from … Read More

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) saved thousands of homes around Lake of the Ozarks when it excluded them from a shoreline preservation project. The project initially included thousands of … Read More

The Enbridge pipeline will cross 11 Missouri counties to connect the tar sands fuel pipeline from Flanagan, Illinois(about 100 miles southwest of Chicago) to Cushing, Oklahoma. Much of this pipeline, … Read More

St. Louis County is studying the area near Laclede Station Road and Highway 44 and nearby area for the purpose of creating a new road plan to reduce traffic congestion. … Read More

MoDOT Director Kevin Keith told state lawmakers that rapidly increasing amounts of traffic on I-70 could turn the interstate into a “graveled parking lot” within 15 years if the highway … Read More

St. Louis County Associate Circuit judge Ellen Ribaudo entered Judgment awarding a family $2.1 million as damages for the taking of their property through eminent domain. The St. Louis County … Read More

The residents of Hadley Township once again are dealing with the prospect of eminent domain, as the City of Richmond Heights tries to redevelop the area. The site … Read More

The City of Richmond Heights is challenging the Missouri statutes that created Heritage Value and Homestead Value in eminent domain cases. In 2006, the Missouri legislature reformed eminent domain laws … Read More

Varnish Fine Art in San Francisco will be the location of an “Eminent Domain Awareness Show” on Friday June 5th, 2009.

According to its press release, a local agency, “is eliminating … Read More

The Pacific Legal Foundation is bringing the case of an Idaho couple to the Supreme Court this month seeking review of an EPA decision to stop the couple from building … Read More

90 miles of rail lines between Alton and Lincoln in Illinois are being upgraded as the initial step of high speed rail between St. Louis and Chicago. Second phase will … Read More

“Thirteen years after the city began planning a massive business park in the Mississippi River flood plain, a long-awaited trial on an environmental group’s challenge of a related tax subsidy … Read More

Jefferson County will be upgrading a number of bridges, including: the Mapaville Hematite Road bridge over Little Creek; the Old Antonia Road bridge over a tributary of Rock Creek; the … Read More

IDOT is proposing a highway, called the “66 Corridor,” to connect Interstate 24 in Paducah, Kentucky, to Interstate 55 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. A study is being done to determine … Read More