Infrastructure Junkies! Exploring Eminent Domain, Right of Way, and Infrastructure Development (formerly The Pendulum Land Podcast)

Do you have a "hot" infrastructure project with heavy media scrutiny? Has the use of eminent domain become controversial...or has the landowner utilized the media or politicians to weaponize its case? Are some impacted property owners a hotter potato than others? Join Infrastructure Junkies' fascinating interview of PR expert Brian Daskam, who guides your hosts through the minefield of controversial projects. And bonus! Get Brian's hot take on 90's music and....coffee? Oh, and a spirited round of "Cross Examination with Dave!"

Professor Tanya D. Marsh from Wake Forest University School of Law teaches the only law school course on cemetery and funeral law in the United States. She joins the Infrastructure Junkies to educate us all on what to do if human remains lie in the path of a right of way project. How can graves be condemned through eminent domain? Does a corpse have the right to just compensation? And what even are "human remains" that trigger special treatment? Find out here!

Your PLP hosts took some time off to rest their Simple Minds and plan the second half of Season 2! Listen in for a short update on two brand new episodes dropping in August, Infrastructure Junkies Hall of Fame inductees, and a spirited discussion about the worst songs in rock n' roll history!!

Two of the best and most successful property rights (landowner) eminent domain attorneys in the United States, Andrew Prince Brigham (Jacksonville) and Christian Torgrimson (Atlanta), join Infrastructure Junkies! to share their perspectives from the other side. Along the way, they discuss what attracted them to defending landowners, their perspective on the ongoing debate of whether eminent domain is good or evil, as well as jury trial strategies. Learn what they view as unfair practices by condemning authorities and which agencies are more difficult than others. They identify bad condemning authority practices and behaviors and best of all, appraisers and appraisal tactics which they are able to exploit at trial. As would be expected, each guest handily survives "Cross Examination with Dave"!

This episode was recorded on location at the Eminent Domain and Land Value Litigation Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. Infrastructure Junkies! would like to thank Amy Weinberg at ALI-CLE for providing our team the space to record at the conference.

Infrastructure Junkies! would also like to thank Pender & Coward's Eminent Domain / Right of Way Practice Group for its generosity in sponsoring this episode.

Check out the wondrous story of the greatest American infrastructure achievement of the 19th Century: the Brooklyn Bridge. Professor Greg Jackson of the wildly popular History That Doesn't Suck podcast joins the Infrastructure Junkies! to bring the story of our nation's greatest infrastructure marvel to life. Listen to how the brilliant John Roebling identified the pressing need to connect Brooklyn with Manhattan in the mid 1800's and then conceived the engineering technique to accomplish this vision. A road supported by string? Not quite, but this marvel still provides safe passage to over 100,000 people every day nearly a century and a half after completion.