Our Hawaiian friend, Robert T. Thomas, brought an Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision to our attention. The case, Chmielewski v The City of St. Pete Beach, was decided on May 16, 2018. Robert writes an excellent blog, inversecondemnation.com. The blog must be considered mandatory reading for anyone interested in eminent domain. In the Chmielewski case, the Court affirmed a jury verdict in favor of a property owner who asserted that the City’s invitation to the public to access the beach by way of the owner’s privately-owned land was a… read more
May 21, 2018