Legal Trend: Pre-condemnation Access when a Private Entity Uses Eminent Domain.

How much access does a condemning entity have to survey land before eminent domain proceedings begin?

That’s the million dollar question before the Virginia Supreme Court. 

Is this a new issue percolating in the state courts? No, land owners near Big Bend are tacking a similar legal issue of the Pecos Pipeline and courts in California are grappling with the issue.

The Daily Progress | Virginia Supreme Court takes first look at pipeline survey law through two appeals