There’s still time to register for Practical Guide to Zoning and Land Use Law, to be held on April 5, in Honolulu. Details, including the complete agenda and registration form are here.
I’ll be leading a session on “Appealing an Administrative Zoning Decision,” in which we will go over the ins-and-outs of taking
Check out this AP photo and the accompanying story “China’s ‘stubborn nail’ stands firm” —
Reminds me of the Warner Bros. classic “Homeless Hare,” where Bugs Bunny objects to a developer’s efforts to evict him from his hole: “Hey ya big gorilla, didn’t you ever hear about the sanctity of the American home
An interesting decision from the Kansas federal district court, Mount St. Scholastica, Inc. v. City of Atchison, No. 06-2208-CM (Mar. 12, 2007), contains a land use trifecta: historic preservation, religious objections to a denial of a permit, and regulatory takings. (No link yet to opinion, which currently is only available via Westlaw; email me
Steven Greenhut’s opinion piece at the Orange County Register, “The powerless have always been targets of eminent domain,” makes some good points about eminent domain abuse, and the recently-argued Wilkie case (regarding the right to be free from government retailition for defending a Fifth Amendment right), and is worth reading:
“Cities use code
Martin Kasindorf at USA Today has written a story Land-use debate ugly in paradise about the competing sides about a proposed development on Molokai:
“There is trouble in paradise,” says Annie VanEps, 59, an art gallery manager who moved from California five yearsago. “This has split our island. Can’t we have one island that’s notdeveloped?”
Which issue is more important when it comes to utilizing scarce federal judicial resources:
While Tribe said he sensed the justices were sympathetic to his Fifth Amendment argument, they were wary of creating new ways to sue government employees.
“There is a considerable amount of hostility for the possibility of opening up the floodgates of litigation against government officials,&rdquo
More background on the Wilkie v. Robbins case, argued yesterday.
The Jackson Hole (WY) Star Tribune posts more details about the landowner Harvey Frank Robbins in this story, and sums up the issue before the Court:
Among other considerations, the high courtwill have to decide whether the 5th Amendment, like the 1st and the4th,
While there was much more attention devoted to today’s argument in the school free speech case, another appeal argued today — Wilkie v. Robbins — deserves some light since it addresses a core constitutional issue: can the government retailiate against a property owner for refusing to surrender a Fifth Amendment right?
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The transcript to today’s oral arguments in the Wilkie v. Robbins case is posted here. More to follow after a chance to digest it.