Environmental problems are increasing day by day and it results in to a new kind of eminent domain proceeding which is called an inverse condemnation.

In this proceeding, a property owner initiates the action. When it seems that the taker of a property is not able to bring an eminent domain proceedings then an inverse condemnation proceeding takes place.

The taking of a property by a government agency is equivalent to condemnation of an entire property as government property damages the use of a parcel of the real property.

Hence, the property owner has a right to claim for the repayment of losses of the property under the government’s constitutional eminent domain right.

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