January 2009

OCA_logo I’m honored to have been designated as the Hawaii member of the Owners’ Counsel of America. OCA is “a voluntary network of experienced eminent domain attorneys from every state of the nation, representing property owners facing condemnation or other infringement on their constitutional rights to own property, and dedicated to advancing the cause of

09.LULHI It’s not too late to register to attend the Hawaii Land Use Law Conference, taking place January 15 and 16, 2009, in Honolulu. 

Items on the agenda include eminent domain, environmental law, transit-oriented development, subdivision requirements, and cultural impact statements. The program co-chairs are Professor David Callies and land use lawyer Ben Kudo.

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Thanks to Professor Patty Salkin’s Law of the Land blog for letting us know that on January 14, 2009, the New York Court of Appeals (that state’s highest court) will be hearing oral arguments in Aspen Creek Estates, Ltd. v. Town of Brookhaven, a case challenging a municipality’s ability to take property.  Professor Salkin

In a development that began in November 2007 (2005 actually, if the starting point is seen as the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Lingle v. Chevron, U.S.A., Inc., 544 U.S 528 (2005)), the Ninth Circuit finally ditched Armendariz v. Penman,75 F.3d 1311 (9th Cir. 1996) (en banc), and recognized that property owners are

Currently at the annual conference on eminent domain law – as always, well worth attending.

In the morning’s session, Professor Kanner mentioned the recent decision in County of Hawaii v. C & J Coupe Family Limited Partnership, No. 28882 (Dec. 24, 2008), which has not yet been published in the official reporters.  The slip

One of the bigger developments, at least in Hawaii law, came in the last week of the year. We’re talking about the Hawaii Supreme Court’s decision in County of Hawaii v. C & J Coupe Family Limited Partnership, No. 28882 (Dec. 24, 2008) (and we’re not just hailing the case because we’re the attorneys

Following up on this post, where we pointed out several errors in a headline and subheadline in a Honolulu Star-Bulletin story on the Hawaii Supreme Court’s landmark eminent domain decision in County of Hawaii v. C & J Coupe Family Limited Partnership, No. 28882 (Dec. 24, 2008), the Star-Bulletin has posted corrections and

Zplr_p1 The Zoning and Planning Law Report (Thomson | West) has published my article about the post-Lingle developments in substantive due process in the Ninth Circuit. Download a pdf of the article here.

From the introduction:

Substantive due process asserted as a claim for relief has a whiff of danger about it. After all