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Land Condemnation Actions

E.D. Va. Local Civil Rule 71A

The guidelines for filing, docketing, recording, and reporting land condemnation proceedings approved by the Judicial Conference of the United States at its March 1975 session are approved for use in this jurisdiction and are hereby adopted. The Clerk is directed to implement these guidelines and is authorized, where the United States files separate condemnation actions and a single declaration of taking relating to those separate actions, to establish a master file in which the declaration of taking may be filed. The filing of the declaration of taking therein shall constitute a filing of the same in each of the actions to which it relates.
Official source: https://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/sites/vaed/files/Local%20Rules%20EDVA%20December%201%202024. · retrieved 2026-07-23