Jan 31, 2019 | Landowner Rights & Environmental law
Wild fires are a serious issue in Oklahoma, especially western Oklahoma during the early months of the year. The humidity gets real low, there is a lack of moisture in the air, everything dries out, the land is arid, flat, and often plagued by cedar trees, creating...
Feb 5, 2018 | Landowner Rights & Environmental law
By: Peter Boettke, Ph.D. “The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.” –Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. Why are the benefits of Private Property...
Jan 29, 2018 | Landowner Rights & Environmental law
Pictured above: Kayla Petsch, Travis C. Smith, and Larry Finn, after winning a $1 million verdict against City of Del City on October 25, 2017 in a hotly contested condemnation case. (Del City only offered $450,000 to condemn the property). The Importance of Property...
Oct 26, 2017 | Landowner Rights & Environmental law
OKLAHOMA CITY – October 25, 2017, an Oklahoma County jury awarded over $1 million to the owners and mortgagee of a condemned strip club property in Del City. The property, nearly an acre in land size, had a desirable location along Interstate 40. But Del City claimed...
Sep 18, 2017 | Landowner Rights & Environmental law
I handle a lot of cases involving property damage, whether that is damage to personal property, like vehicles, or damage to real property, such as land or a home. And I also handle cases involving land and natural resources, such as damage to trees or pollution from...
Aug 16, 2017 | Landowner Rights & Environmental law
This article will cover unsolicited aerial spraying of pesticides, herbicides and other agricultural chemicals on private land in Oklahoma, and what rights and responsibilities are implicated. What is crop dusting? Ever seen an airplane that is flying over a field,...
