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Smith & Fawer, LLC, attorneys Randall A. Smith and L. Tiffany Hawkins worked to defend the Rothchild family in the 14th Judicial District Court of Louisiana against the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District. The defense contended that their property was taken...
A settlement has been reached after it was found that the Lafayette Consolidated Government did not follow proper procedures when it obtained 372 acres of land on the Vermilion River. Read more at The Advocate:...
Read more on The Acadiana Advocate: https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/appeal-court-lafayette-abused-authority-expropriating-land/article_9707666a-820b-11ed-a917-37edb467f8de.html
Read more at the Daily Advertiser: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2022/05/04/judge-rules-against-lafayette-suit-over-homewood-detention-pond/9650845002/
Read more on The Daily Advertiser: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2022/04/07/work-stopped-major-lafayette-detention-pond-judge-weighs-ruling/9468215002/
Read more on Lafayette Daily Advertiser: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2022/03/18/ethics-issue-stops-work-vermilion-river-detention-pond-lafayette-lawsuit/6992741001/
Read more on KATC Channel 3 – Acadiana’s Newschannel: https://www.katc.com/news/lafayette-parish/judge-orders-drainage-work-halted-until-case-is-settled
Title 19 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes contains the general expropriation statutes, and it governs takings by public bodies and certain quasi-public entities, such as utilities. La. R.S. 19:2.1 specifically authorizes the state or its political corporations or subdivisions to take private property for public use in accordance with Article 1, § 4 and Article VI, § 21 of the…
We are in unimaginable and unprecedented times. Every day, Americans are seeing new measures taken by the government to slow the spread of the coronavirus, also referred to as “COVID-19.” As national, state, and local government officials attempt to navigate these unchartered waters, we are starting to see a surge in the exercise of eminent domain powers. Eminent domain laws, as they relate…
Read more at The Advocate: https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/st-bernard-parish-can-keep-seized-riverside-facility-but-at-more-than-twice-the-original/article_2b102fb8-36c5-11e9-8925-531fb534fa36.amp.html