June 2010

Today’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser runs the editorial Perk of incumbency: Unequal time, about Hawaii’s “resign to run” requirement (article II, section 7 of the Hawaii Constitution), particularly the interplay with equal time in broadcast media:

The cynic might say that elected officials are candidates every day of their working lives. Attorney Robert Thomas, who admits

In its Thursday editorial, Common Sense and Private Property, the New York Times barely conceals its derision for both the property owners who instituted takings claims in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-1151, and the four-Justice plurality who set forth the standards for judicial takings, but

This just in: the Supreme Court has issued opinions in the judicial takings case, Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11 (cert. granted June 15, 2009):

JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, IV, and V, concluding that the Florida Supreme Court

The WMA Reporter, the monthly publication of the Western Manufactured Communities Housing Association has published A Regulatory Takings Glossary (or, How to Translate Property Rights Lawyerspeak), my short article that attempts to deconstruct some of the more common terms property lawyers toss about. Here’s the Introduction:

One of my law school professors once