Remember that now-iconic scene in The Fugitive, where Harrison Ford’s character has turned the tables on Tommy Lee Jones, and while holding Jones at gunpoint proclaims, “I didn’t kill my wife!”
Jones’ response — “I don’t care!“ — could just as easily apply to regulatory takings law, especially where a property owner
The Institute for Justice, the Cato Institute, and the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty have weighed in on Tuck-It-Away, Inc. v. New York State Urban Dev. Corp., No. 10-402 (cert. petition filed Sep. 21, 2010), the case in which upper Manhattan property owners have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of
New York State Senator Bill Perkins has filed an amicus brief in Tuck-It-Away, Inc. v. New York State Urban Dev. Corp., No. 10-402 (cert. petition filed Sep. 21, 2010), the case in which upper Manhattan property owners have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of the New York Court of Appeals
The Pacific Legal Foundation has filed an amicus brief in Tuck-It-Away, Inc. v. New York State Urban Dev. Corp., No. 10-402 (cert. petition filed Sep. 21, 2010), the case in which upper Manhattan property owners have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of the New York Court of Appeals in the
Here are the slides that I used and links to the cases I discussed in “The Whacky and Wonderful World of Eminent Domain After Kelo.”
My presentation was entitled “Schlimmbesserung – Eminent Domain for Redevelopment.” Schlimmbesserung is one of those wonderful German compound words that have no direct translation into English, and means “worsening
Boston law firm Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster has started the Massachusetts Land Use Monitor, which focuses on “court decisions and other developments in land use and real estate law, legislation and policy” from the Bay State.
Bob Foster, my colleague in the ABA’s State and Local Goverment Law section, is one of the
There was a time when eminent domain lawyers practiced in relative obscurity. Other than a select few, not many knew about condemnation or eminent domain law, or regulatory takings or inverse condemnation.
But ever since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), which permitted the
An opinion worth reading from the Missouri Court of Appeals on the relationship between an action in trespass and eminent domain. Sterbenz v. Kansas City Power and Light Co., No. WE71776 (Oct. 5, 2010) discusses the liability of a utility company for the installation of an underground utility line without an easement.
The Sterbenzes
On Friday, November 19, 2010, I’ll be on the faculty of “Integrating Water Law and Land Use Planning” in Honolulu. My session will cover “Water Rights, Property Rights and the Law of Settled Expectations.”
Other sessions include “Hawaiian Water Rights – Where Culture and the Law Merge,” “Amendments to the Instream Flow Standards