A split Wisconsin Supreme Court decided the Wisconsin Department of Transportation made a valid offer to a Fox Valley church for land obtained through eminent domain.

A Dane County road with a “lengthy and relatively complex litigation history” is at the center of an eminent domain case in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Gov. Tony Evers wants to restore local governments and state agencies’ right to seize private property for biking and hiking trails, a step that would again pit private property owners against villages, towns and cities looking to make public improvements.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will be kicking off 2019 with a lineup of oral arguments that includes a dispute between a city and town over whether the land for a sand mine was properly annexed.

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.

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.

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.

Mount Pleasant officials slapped a blighted designation Monday on thousands of acres of land near the site of Foxconn Technology Group’s new $10 billion factory, a step that could allow the village to use eminent domain to obtain property from holdout landowners.

Mount Pleasant officials have asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by property owners who allege the village, in taking their land through eminent domain for work related to the Foxconn project, is violating their constitutional rights.

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.

The Court of Appeals applied the agency doctrine of apparent authority when deciding whether the property owners in an eminent domain case had obtained jurisdiction over the governmental entity that condemned their property.

The clock is ticking ... both for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and for private citizens’ attempts to meet the statutory deadline for challenging changes that towns make to local highways.

A state court of appeals has ruled that the village of Cross Plains properly compensated a man for land it took for a construction project.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has held that the state Department of Transportation does not need to compensate a property owner for restricting its only access to a highway because the agency provided an alternate means of access.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide Thursday whether the state Department of Transportation must compensate a property owner for restricting access to a highway even though it created another point of access.

Mistakes on a map do not give the state free rein to take private property without compensating the owner, a state court of appeals has ruled.

Even though a state project eliminated a Kenosha shopping center’s connection to a city street and forced customers to use a private drive, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled, the owners are entitled to no compensation under the state’s eminent-domain law.

The state Supreme Court will not review a lawsuit over a Brown Deer road project and land acquisition.

A lawsuit over a $2.3 million street and landscaping project in Brown Deer might reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court even though construction is almost finished.

A judge’s ruling will let Brown Deer revive a multimillion-dollar street renovation project that had been tied up in a lawsuit with angry property owners for more than a year.

Brown Deer took three steps Wednesday toward prevailing in a land dispute with a group of property owners but still faces one stumbling block: the 8700 block of North Deerwood Drive.

A group of Brown Deer residents and the village are expecting a judge’s ruling soon in a dispute over who owns roads targeted for a renovation project.

Five roads at the heart of a property ownership dispute in the village of Brown Deer are public highways, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Rick Sankovitz concluded Tuesday, but the lawsuit brought by the village against a group of landowners will take more time to resolve.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Rick Sankovitz will hear arguments Monday on whether the village of Brown Deer should be compelled to use eminent domain in a land dispute with 12 property owners.

Brown Deer officials and residents are waiting for a March court date to go to trial over the use of eminent domain for a $2.3 million streetscape project.

Brown Deer will soon find out the cost of overestimating the public’s trust in government.

A court ruling is forcing Brown Deer officials and residents to go to trial over the use of eminent domain for a $2.3 million streetscape project.

When the state cut Nels Naslund and his partners a $1.9 million check for a chunk of prime real estate off Highway 41, he said he never expected to have to share it with a renter.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday will determine how billboard owners get paid when the state condemns property to make room for highway projects.