In Texas’ five largest counties, eminent domain cases are neither filed nor tried in district court. Sec. 21.013(b), Property Code, requires that the cases be filed and tried in a county court at law in any county which has a county court at law with eminent domain jurisdiction.
Property Rights
Oakland fined this couple $915,000 for preventing fires. That’s 18 times the penalty for actual arson
Imagine buying a piece of property, being ordered by the government to clear it of fire hazards, and then being handed a near-million-dollar bill by that same government for doing exactly what it asked. It sounds like a dystopian satire of bureaucratic overreach, but for Matthew Bernard and Lynn Warner, it is a harrowing legal...
August 19, 2026