Eminent-domain case questions reconstruction of Dane County road

November 5, 2019 12:05 pm Leave a comment

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.

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Owners near Foxconn say they were misled. Now their homes are gone

September 3, 2019 6:00 am Leave a comment

Kim Mahoney stands in the kitchen of her house in Mount Pleasant on July 1. She and her family have not accepted an offer from the village of Mount Pleasant to sell their new house and property to make way for the Foxconn plant. “Their offer doesn’t make us whole, it comes up way short,” she says. Mahoney says several of her neighbors were pressured into selling their houses for road widenings that are no longer planned. (Photos by Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch)

In late summer 2017, Cathy and Rodney Jensen started hearing rumors that their Mount Pleasant neighborhood could be changing.

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Bill would place cap on more eminent-domain payments

May 24, 2019 3:03 pm Leave a comment

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.

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Mount Pleasant backs land seizures over objections from residents

September 25, 2018 7:53 pm Leave a comment

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.

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Largest landowners left in Foxconn’s path sue over Mount Pleasant’s eminent-domain threats

September 24, 2018 3:21 pm Leave a comment

Construction crews work at the site that Foxconn Technology Group has chosen for the $10 billion manufacturing campus it’s having built in Mount Pleasant. The owner of the largest piece of private property in the path of Foxconn Technology Group's project is suing to prevent the village of Mount Pleasant's attempt to use eminent domain to acquire. (Staff photo by Rick Benedict)

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.

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Mount Pleasant buys out four property owners suing over Foxconn land acquisition

August 7, 2018 3:27 pm Leave a comment

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.

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New lawsuit challenges Mount Pleasant’s broad blight designation at Foxconn site

July 17, 2018 6:09 pm Leave a comment

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.

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Eminent-domain fears swirl as Foxconn breaks ground in Mount Pleasant

June 29, 2018 12:17 pm Leave a comment

Mike Thompson of East Troy takes a picture with his phone while standing in Mount Pleasant’s Smolenski Park with a sign denouncing local officials’ plans to use eminent domain to acquire property for the Foxconn project. The rally attracted about 300 opponents of the project. Demonstrators expressed concerns about the $4.5 billion worth of taxpayer subsidies the projects to get and the plant’s possible effects on the environment. (Staff photo by Kevin Harnack)

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.

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US Supreme Court decides critical question for eminent-domain cases

August 17, 2017 3:05 pm Leave a comment

The property is idyllic. It consists of two parcels in a cove on the St. Croix River along the Wisconsin-Minnesota border where the river widens and flattens to form Lake St. Croix.

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