Several diverse items, for your consideration:
- Columnist George Will opines about the Empress Casino Joliet case — the one where the Illinois Supreme Court held that aregulation imposing a 3%”surcharge” on Illinois casinos with gross receipts over $200 millionper year, and then gives the money to horse racing tracks is not ataking of property. The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to review the case. We discussed it here and here (cert petition and amicus briefs included).
- The ABA Journal writes about George Will opining on the Empress Casino Joliet case.
- The Wall Street Journal Law Blog asks “Maryland’s Run for the Preakness: Would it Be Constitutional?”
- From the New York Zoning and Municipal Law Blog: “Road Improvement Serving Primarily Commercial Vehicles Does not Defeat Eminent Domain.”
- From the Maui News: “Plan could rejuvinate waters of Na Wai Eha” – a dispatch from the trenches of Hawaii’s water wars.