What are the chances of a lawsuit in this instance?
Where I used to work there was a nice little hot dog stand kind of place that did a really good business for breakfast & lunch. Supposedly, they were putting in a traffic circle in the area & they were forced to close up shop & leave. I believe "eminent domain" is where the government can take your land, etc. when needs be. I don't know what they were paid but they left.
It's been almost 1 1/2 years & no traffic circle yet. I wondered if these people could sue the city or whoever? They could have stayed in their place & continued making a living for another 1 1/2 years before having to move. Seems quite unfair to me.
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They left because they sold the land. Eminent domain requires fair market value to be paid. You have less than 0 chance of a suit.
THE CHANCES FOR A LAWSUIT ARE NIL.
Nope. If they got the letter telling them to leave and that it was now the property of the city, there's not much they can do about it. Hell the city doesn't even have to put anything up there.
Nope- that really doesn't have to do with eminent domain because the street/sidewalk already belonged to the city/county/state. When they got their license to sell the food or to set up their hot dog stand they probably were required to get some kind of permit to be allowed to use that spot in the first place & with some kind of understanding that they could be told that they had to move at some point if need be - I'm sure street merchants understand that when they set up their stands.
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