Chaffinch v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia, Inc.

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• holding that “[a] statutory remedy does not preempt common law remedies against a non-sovereign entity vested with the power of eminent domain unless the statute, expressly or by necessary implication, so provides”
• “just compensation clause of the Virginia Constitution, Article I, § 11, constitutes a waiver of sovereign immunity from inverse condemnation claims”

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