Georgia Eminent Domain Law Blog
Pool Business Settles For $750,000
A pool business in Cartersville, GA settled with Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) for $750,000. By condemning two-thirds of the site, including all of the display area, GDOT’s condemnation would have left the site unfit for continued use as a high-end...
Surveys Continue As Palmetto Pipeline Awaits Appeal
SavanahNow.com (Savanah Daily News) Posted: June 13, 2015 – 9:56pm | Updated: June 14, 2015 – 1:37pm By Mary Landers Michael Maddox thought he wouldn’t have to deal with pipeline surveyors again after transportation officials rejected Kinder Morgan’s Palmetto...
New Pipelines Fuel Fights Over Property
Oil and gas boom fuels increase in pipelines and eminent domain fights www.ajc.com Moreland — The nation’s oil and gas boom brings cheaper fuel, and real heartache, to thousands of Georgia families who benefit from, or suffer alongside, the thousands of miles of...
2 Land-Grab Cases, 2 Losses For GA. Power
The power company condemned seven acres of the Atlanta couple’s property along a ridge where the Joneses were planning to erect vacation cabins. Then utility loggers began clear-cutting forest in sight of the couple’s newly built lodge, said their Cartersville...
Don Evans Informs Victims Of Palmetto Pipline
Evans and Rhodes, LLC partner, Donald C. Evans Jr., advised land owners impacted by the planned Palmetto Pipeline in Georgia to deny Kinder Morgan survey rights. An excerpt from the SavanahNow.com article explains: “Anti-pipeline activists have been urging landowners...
