re: Anyone here experienced Eminent Domain on property?

Sound advice.

Upon my understanding most of these "takings" are about compensation and result in settlements.

I have been keeping up with Port Arthur Pipeline (PAPL) activity in the Sulphur and Carlyss areas in Calcasieu Parish. PAPL has filed suits in Federal Court against several land owners to expropriate property in order to send material via pipeline to an LNG facility in Texas.

Last night I noticed a recent decision and a cursory summary relating to a landowner's win against Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District (Port of Lake Charles). It stated that Louisiana DOTD was in a joint venture with the Port. This matter was held in the Fourteenth District Court. The Barbe Family Estate was awarded four times the final amount offered in addition to having to pay attorney fees, judicial interest, court costs, expert witnesses.