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Biersdorf & Associates has recently been hired by property owners affected by the Tri-Cities Regional Airport expansion project in Blountville, Tenn.
The Tri-Cities Regional Airport plans to expand the secondary runway, which will result in diminished property values and a loss of amenities for property owners in the nearby single-family home development named Grande Harbor.

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The session was conducted by lead attorney Dan Biersdorf, who assisted property owners in understanding the importance of the eminent domain process. He also discussed property owner’s rights in eminent domain cases, along with the importance of hiring an eminent domain attorney early in the eminent domain process.

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With just 13 days until the end of the road for Cameron's Warehouse Liquor, the 115-year-old store received a new lease on life, until July 18 anyway.

Cameron's on Concord Boulevard in Inver Grove Heights is counting down the days until the oncoming rumble of reconstruction shuts down the business at its current location in the old village.

BY MICHAEL DALE-STEIN | MAY 08, 2009 7:30 AM

The Daily Iowan

The UI could use its governmental power as a state university to acquire private property for relocating the Hancher/Voxman/Clapp complex, officials said.
Of the eight potential sites the UI presented to the state Board of Regents for rebuilding the complex, three are not university-owned, said UI spokesman Steve Parrott.

The state wants to limit how much it must pay attorneys representing landowners whose property is being forcibly taken by the government.

Some attorneys are organizing opposition to that and related changes they saycould mean owners would not be able to afford legal help in trying to receive fair compensation for their land.

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An out-of-state attorney is organizing opposition to a Wisconsin Department of Transportation budget proposal that would make it more difficult to fight the agency over land seized for road projects.

The proposal limits the amount of attorney fees landowners can recover when challenging WisDOT over cases involving eminent domain, which is a state law allowing government to buy land for public projects. In some cases, landowners appeal WisDOT appraisals of land needed for road projects to get more money for their properties. But if the proposal becomes law, landowners appealing the WisDOT appraisals might end up owing their lawyers more money than they win in court, said Kelly Keady, an attorney with the Minneapolis law firm Biersdorf & Associates SC, which specializes in eminent domain cases. Essentially, the proposal would make it more difficult for landowners to contest WisDOT appraisals, he said.

An informational public meeting regarding the construction of a new 4-lane highway around the City of Portsmouth, known as the Portsmouth Bypass Project will be held at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 at the Ramada Inn—Shawnee Room located at 711 Second Street, Portsmouth, OH.

WI Law Journal
by Dustin Block

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation wants to make it more difficult for property owners to contest the price the state agency offers when it acquires their land for public construction projects.

WisDOT wants to shut down a tactic used by lawyers to ensure the state, and not their clients, pays legal bills. But lawyers who represent property owners say the new law would give people few options to fight lowball offers for their land.

Attorney's Dan Biersdorf and Jim Creasy will meet with several key property owners today in relation to the highly publicized I-75 Interchange reconstruction projects occuring throughout the State of Georgia. Many property owners will be affected by eminent domain as a result of these interchange improvements.  While funding for a lot of these interchange projects is not available, the State of Georgia is proceeding with the design phases and will begin the property acquisition phases as soon as ROW plans are submitted and approved, and funding is secured.