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Lawsuit seeks to block eminent domain (The Star-Ledger)A coalition of property owners filed suit yesterday against Union Township to prevent officials from using eminent domain as part of a sweeping proposal to transform the township's aging shopping district.

Viking Energy using eminent domain; some homeowners countering in circuit court (Bowling Green Daily News)Tensions going back at least 20 years have resurfaced in Richardsville, where gas company Viking Energy recently filed eminent domain lawsuits against three property owners in the area.

Eminent domain threatens Fairway home (KSHB-TV Kansas City)FAIRWAY, Kan. ? Eminent domain in Fairway, Kan. is threatening a home, and the homeowner is fighting the city for fair value. Engineers say the 55-year-old Mission Road Bridge is structurally obsolete and must be replaced soon. To do so, the City needs to buy six nearby homes.

Kick those 'squatters' off your domain (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)Susan Schreter offers advice on how to protect your online domain name.

Power firm challenges eminent domain limits (Poughkeepsie Journal)ALBANY ? The company that wants to build a high-voltage transmission line from central New York to the New York City suburbs Thursday asked a federal court to throw out a state law that would limit its use of eminent domain to secure land for the project.

Domain name prices to go up this year (Computer Business Review)The annual price of a .com or .net domain name will almost certainly rise this year, according to Stratton Sclavos, chief executive of VeriSign Inc, which runs the two namespaces.

City to consider appeal on eminent domain award (Winona Daily News)The city of Winona might appeal an eminent domain award. A court ordered the city last fall to pay an additional $28,000 for a property it took for the Pelzer Street project, owned by the Goodview partnership Evanson and Evanson.