September 2010

The littoral property owners who won a partial victory in the Hawaii appellate courts have filed this cert petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals which concluded that ownership of beachfront property includes only a partial right to accreted land. In Maunalua Bay Beach …

Last week, we filed an amicus brief in United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation, No. 09-846, (cert. granted Apr. 19, 2010). Why is a case involving the Indian Tucker Act and the technicalities of the Court of Federal Claims’ subject matter jurisdiction showing up in the pages of this blog? In addition to being…

Worth listening: this LexisNexis podcast. Details:

On this edition, Michael Allan Wolf, Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government Law at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida, discusses what real estate practitioners can learn from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida DEP and what it…

You may have missed the live program, but it’s still not too late to get the podcast of a recent discussion of Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11 (June 17, 2010), the Supreme Court case about judicial takings and beachfront property. Here’s the course description from ALI-ABA:…

Here’s your chance to be a well-known “eminent domain photographer.”

The ABA Section of State and Local Government Law will soon be publishing a Handbook on Eminent Domain, and is need of photographs to illustrate it. We’re looking for high resolution, not copyrighted pictures for the various chapters to illustrate “public purpose,” “inverse condemnation,” “pre-trial,&rdquo…