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Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to remove roadblocks set up by Wisconsin tribe
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block a northern Wisconsin tribe from barricading roads on its reservation, saying the nontribal land owners who brought the action didn't have a case under federal law.
Tribe to reopen Lac du Flambeau roads in temporary deal
A Native American tribe and a northern Wisconsin town have reached an agreement under which the tribe will temporarily reopen four barricaded roads that are the subject of a decadelong dispute and a recent lawsuit.
Supreme Court: WisDOT properly used eminent domain to take church property for highway project
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation properly used eminent domain to obtain property from a Fox Valley church, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
Eminent-domain case questions reconstruction of Dane County road
A Dane County agricultural company is arguing it’s owed public compensation because a town that seized its land using eminent domain didn’t keep its promise to build it a usable road.
Owners near Foxconn say they were misled. Now their homes are gone
In late summer 2017, Cathy and Rodney Jensen started hearing rumors that their Mount Pleasant neighborhood could be changing.
Bill would place cap on more eminent-domain payments
A bill before lawmakers calls for capping the amounts that counties and other government entities can be required to pay tenants and property owners when they seize property using eminent domain.
Mount Pleasant backs land seizures over objections from residents
The village of Mount Pleasant on Monday moved to seize nine properties to make way for Foxconn-related road work, over objections from property owners who have refused to sell.
Largest landowners left in Foxconn’s path sue over Mount Pleasant’s eminent-domain threats
The owners of the largest swath of private land left near the massive factory Foxconn Technology Group is building in southeast Wisconsin are suing to prevent the village of Mount Pleasant from seizing a sliver of the land for a road-expansion project.
Mount Pleasant buys out four property owners suing over Foxconn land acquisition
The village of Mount Pleasant has reached a deal to buy out four property owners who are part of a lawsuit accusing the village of wrongly declaring thousands of acres of farmland in Foxconn's path blighted.
New lawsuit challenges Mount Pleasant’s broad blight designation at Foxconn site
A group of homeowners filed a new lawsuit against Mount Pleasant on Tuesday, challenging the village's decision in June to declare thousands of acres of farmland in Foxconn's path blighted.
Eminent-domain fears swirl as Foxconn breaks ground in Mount Pleasant
As Foxconn Technology Group officially marked the start on Thursday of work on its $10 billion factory in Mount Pleasant, fears swirled that local officials were moving to unleash a legal means of forcing homeowners to make way for the technology giant: eminent domain.
US Supreme Court decides critical question for eminent-domain cases
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- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
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