News Mississippi City Nabs Black Residents’ Homes Through Eminent Domain After Failing to Inform Them the Properties Were Considered ‘Blighted’ and of Deadline to Fix Issues Taylor Ardrey October 17, 2023
News Lawsuit: Mississippi Town Declared Houses ‘Blighted’ Without Notice C.J. Ciaramella October 13, 2023
Case Home and business owners only found out their properties were branded as “slum or blighted” long after the time to legally challenge the label in state court passed October 12, 2023
Press Release Ocean Springs Property Owners Challenge Slum Designation in New Federal Lawsuit Andrew Wimer October 12, 2023
News Black Ocean Springs residents fight to save ancestral homes in area city declares ‘blighted’ Anita Lee October 12, 2023
News Lawsuit challenges Mississippi’s urban renewal law being used on Ocean Springs homes Alex Rozier October 12, 2023
News Residents sue Mississippi city for declaring their properties blighted in redevelopment plan Michael Goldberg October 12, 2023
News Lawsuit filed against Ocean Springs for Urban Renewal Plan; Mayor Holloway responds Stephanie Poole, Dylan Jones, and Flora Dedeaux October 12, 2023
News Ocean Springs property owners challenge slum designation in federal lawsuit WXXV Staff October 12, 2023
News Ocean Springs residents file civil rights suit, say urban renewal vote ‘blindsided’ them Anita Lee October 12, 2023
News Fossil Fuel Companies Are Taking Private Land—and Landowners Are Fighting Back Eve Andrews October 10, 2023
News Ocean Springs residents skewer city’s Urban Renewal Plan during packed public hearing Anita Lee October 2, 2023
Press Release Institute for Justice to Join Case Against Unconstitutional Eminent Domain by Port of Freeport, Texas, Targeting Historic Black Community Phillip Suderman September 21, 2023
News Eminent domain’s long-ago racism still hinders African Americans today Roger Chesley September 18, 2023
News Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen September 5, 2023
News Erasing The “Black Spot”: How A Virginia College Expanded By Uprooting A Black Neighborhood Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen September 5, 2023
News Georgia Today: Hurricane Idalia hits Georgia; Giuliani defamation suit; Land seizure in Hancock Peter Biello and Jake Cook August 31, 2023
News The land is your family wealth. A railroad wants a piece of it. What do you do? Grant Blankenship August 31, 2023
Press Release Experts Call Sandersville Railroad Project ‘Unfeasible’ and a ‘Naked Wealth Transfer’ Dan King August 31, 2023
News Sandersville Railroad’s land acquisition stirs controversy among locals: Eminent domain or private gain? Brandon McGouirk July 24, 2023
Press Release Private Railroad Moves to Take Additional Land, Property Owners Vow to Keep Fighting Back Dan King July 24, 2023
News Guest Opinion: The Right Way to Use Eminent Domain to Fix the Penn Station Mess Lynn Ellsworth July 20, 2023
News How Clarence Thomas Went From a Childhood Sleeping on Dirt Floor to Becoming ‘the People’s Justice’ Virginia Allen July 6, 2023
News A New Front in Reparations: Seeking the Return of Lost Family Land Audra D. S. Burch June 8, 2023
News Georgia Slavery Descendants Fight to Keep Land in Their Family William R. Maurer and Betsy Sanz May 26, 2023
News A retired Georgia couple is fighting back against a railroad company that wants to take land their family has owned for generations Sam Tabahriti May 13, 2023