Archive for 2011

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (“Service”) this week released a draft Land Protection Plan (the “Plan Document”) for the proposed Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge (“NWR”). The Service also released the attached map that generally indicates areas which it will consider for fee, or less-than-fee, acquisition for the NWR.

After more than 10 years of eminent domain litigation, two jury trials and a number of appeals, thousands of South Florida homeowners were recently awarded constitutional compensation for the destruction of their private property by the State of Florida. In the mid-2000’s, the State destroyed tens of thousands of healthy citrus trees as part of…

Article published in the August 2011 edition of Farm Credit Leader. This article describes the more significant tax changes effected or continued by the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 (the “2010 Act”) and briefly discusses some of the ways in which small businesses can take advantage of these changes.