Bradford Publishing is pleased to bring you the first annual supplement for Colorado Eminent Domain Practice. Author Leslie A. Fields has drafted a comprehensive supplement that includes updated case law and a replacement CD. This pocket part is cumulative and covers relevant Colorado law through March 31, 2009.

New and Updated Topics for 2009:

• The most recent pronouncement on the breadth and scope of home rule eminent domain powers (1.2.2)
• Further defining the ability to condemn for private purposes under Article II, Section 14 of Colorado’s Constitution (2.2)
• Public use and purpose (2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, and 4.3.3)
• Distinguishing the power to “take” property vs. the power to “refrain” from taking property (3.7)
• Sufficiency of legal descriptions in a condemnation action (4.3.6)
• Disclosure and discovery obligations in a condemnation action (6.3 and 6.5)
• Valuation and damages (10.2, 10.6, 11.2, and 11.6)
• Condemnor’s legal right to abandon condemnation action and limitations on the power to do so (13.1 and 13.2)
• Recovery of attorney fees (15.3 and 15.3.2)