Some interesting items from around the land use law blogosphere:
- A write up of an Eleventh Circuit (which covers Alabama, Florida, and Georgia) decision striking down as unconstitutional a municipal ordinance that prohibited national chain retail stores because it violates the dormant Commerce Clause. This could be a very important case on the “big box” and “formula retail” issues. More from Georgia Zoning Blog.
- Professor Gideon Kanner has posted a series with interesting background and insight on the major eminent domain cases, including (so far) Midkiff, Poletown, and Yonkers Community Redevelopment. Follow along at Gideon’s Trumpet.
- Charley Foster has a series of posts about a reporter’s privilege to trespass on private property, and how it may relate to an ongoing controversy about the State of Hawaii Historical Preservation Division and native Hawaiian remains on a construction site on Kauai. Start at Planet Kauai.