A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has followed a number of other federal courts in eminent domain litigation, giving legal standing to a landowner in Michigan to challenge plans to remove a dam near her property.
Plaintiff Blanche Barber sued Charter Township in Springfield, Michigan, and its Parks and Recreation Department over the dam removal plan, alleging it amounted to an illegal “taking and trespass.”
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