Graves Dougherty has achieved significant results in appeals involving the rights of landowners and royalty owners:

• Graves Dougherty represented landowners who reversed a condemnation judgment in an opinion that provides important guidance on the limits to the government’s ability to take land through the power of eminent domain. Whittington v. City of Austin, 174 S.W.3d 889 (Tex. App.—Austin 2005, pet. denied).
• Graves Dougherty represented property developers in an appeal that invalidated municipal ordinances that imposed illegal fees on the development of real property. Greater New Braunfels Home Builders Ass’n v. City of New Braunfels, 240 S.W.3d 302 (Tex. App.—Austin 2007, pet. denied).
• On behalf of a group of royalty owners, Graves Dougherty defended a ruling that a natural gas company had underpaid royalties by improperly deducting post-production costs in violation of the terms of the lease contracts. Yturria v. Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Onshore, LLC, 291 Fed. Appx. 626 (5th Cir. 2008).