For those of you stuck in the office today, a contest: I’ll send to the first three people who email me today their very own “limited edition” of my firm’s just-released extra-large, cobalt blue coffee mug, shown below.
(Don’t forget to include your name and postal address in your email.)
A happy and safe holiday…
In City and County of San Francisco v. Coyne, No. A118222 (Cal. Ct. App. 1st Dist. Dec. 5, 2008), the court held that in order to be compensated for goodwill under California law when a parcel is taken by eminent domain, the property owner must have a business on the parcel taken, and that…
Why does inversecondemnation.com, a blog about land use issues, care about Hawaii Insurers Council v. Lingle, No. 27840 (Haw. Dec. 18, 2008) enough to have posted about it, you ask? The case involved whether the State of Hawaii Insurance Commissioner could collect fees from insurance companies, and whether the state legislature could thereafter…
How often in an appellate opinion does the court use the term “glom?”
[The Appellee] gloms onto the “police power” aspect of the definition [of regulatory fees] in arguing that “Medeiros plainly concern[ed] the ‘police power’ of ‘criminal investigative services,’ not a user fee as suggested by [the state].”
No matter what you may…
Today, on behalf of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association, we (me and my Damon Key colleagues Christi-Anne Kudo Chock and Matt Evans) filed an amicus brief brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to accept for review the California Court of Appeal’s decision in Charles A. Pratt Const. Co. v. California Coastal Comm’n…
The return trip of the “Hawaii Superferry” case, Sierra Club v. Dep’t of Trans., No. 29035 (visit our page with all resources on the case here), to the Hawaii Supreme Court at first gloss presents a somewhat metaphysical question: when is duly enacted legislation which on its surface appears to be of…
Here are all the inversecondemnation.com posts on the second appeal in the “Hawaii Superferry” case, Sierra Club v. Dep’t of Trans., No. 29035.
Starts at 8:45 a.m. Go here.
Just in case you wanted even more to read tonight before tomorrow’s Hawaii Supreme Court oral arguments in the Hawaii Superferry appeal redux, posted below is a nearly complete set of briefs. Some are upwards of 2 MB, so you — and your internet service provider — have been duly warned.
Believe it or not…
