Property Owners, Attorney's Fees, Eminent Domain

Understanding Attorney’s Fees and Costs Reimbursement in North Carolina Land Condemnation Cases

Cranfill Sumner LLP on 5/15/2025

It is one of the most common assumptions made by clients in litigation: “If I win, the other side will have to pay my attorney’s fees, right?” Unfortunately, that assumption is often wrong—especially in North Carolina. The...more

Ohio Court Rules Property Owner Can Recover Attorney Fees When Eminent Domain Case Is Dismissed by the Taking Authority

Roetzel & Andress on 8/21/2024

In the case of N. Ridgeville v. Zilka, 9th Dist. Lorain No. 23CA012047, 2024-Ohio-2468, Ohio’s Ninth District Court of Appeals addressed the ability of a property owner in an eminent domain action to recover attorney fees...more

Transmission Lines and Eminent Domain: What Property Owners Need to Know

Ackerman & Ackerman, P.C. on 11/30/2023

One of the most common types of cases we handle is utility takings for transmission lines. As governments attempt to improve the electrical grid to support the transportation of wind and solar energy, this type of case is...more

Eminent Domain: Is it Possible to Recover Attorneys’ Fees if you Settle?

Nossaman LLP on 9/20/2019

In California, we have an admittedly odd way of determining whether the property or business owner in an eminent domain case is entitled to recover attorneys’ fees. (Note that I’m specifically talking about an owner’s...more

Caltrans’ Highway 101 Overpass Condemnation Case Ends in Split Decision

Nossaman LLP on 11/4/2015

For several years, we’ve been following an eminent domain lawsuit in Marin County involving Caltrans’ acquisition of 34 acres for a $29.7 million interchange project at the Redwood Sanitary Landfill, which would widen the...more

Court Clarifies Rules for Recovery of Attorneys' Fees in Eminent Domain Actions

Nossaman LLP on 5/5/2015

In California eminent domain actions, the parties are required to exchange formal settlement proposals 20 days before trial. If the case proceeds to trial, the property owner may recover litigation expenses if its demand was...more

Court Clarifies Rules for Recovery of Attorneys’ Fees in Eminent Domain Actions

Nossaman LLP on 4/27/2015

In California eminent domain actions, absent special circumstances (such as an abandonment, successful right to take challenge, or inverse condemnation finding), a property or business owner is typically only entitled to...more

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