5 Big Property Rights & Eminent Domain Cases in Texas. Foreshadowing 2019.

• Land: Wildlife Preserve land at the Border
  • Eminent Domain Use: Border Wall
  • ABC 10 | Texas wildlife refuge could become fierce battleground over Trump’s proposed border wall
• Land: Landowners around the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District
  • Property Rights Issue: Whether landwoners with no well in an aquifer can protest a permit
  • Statesman | Groundwater district appeals judge’s ruling for Bastrop landowners
• Property: Deer and deer breeder licenses
  • Property Rights Issue: What will the appellate courts do with the either the ruling or compensation for the TPWD rule that transfered privately owned deer to state property
  • Statesman | Texas deer breeders challenge ruling on state’s disease regulations
• Property: Land along the proposed Dallas-Houston high speed rail
  • Property Rights Issue 1: Whether the power of eminent domain is granted to the high speed rail entity
  • Property Rights Issue 2: If the high speed rail entity has the power of eminent domain, how does its power of eminent domain work when local governments have declared certain right of ways untouchable by local government action?