2010

The New Jersey Supreme Court today issued a unanimous opinion in Klumpp v. Borough of Avalon, No. A-49-09 (Jun. 22, 2010), the case the New Jersey Law Journal described as the “bizarre condemnation” after the Appellate Division held that the government can assert inverse condemnation in order to take property without…

The Ninth Circuit’s en banc rent control takings case, set for oral argument in Pasadena tomorrow, has generated big interest.

In Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, 582 F.3d 996 (9th Cir., Sep. 28, 2009), a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the city’s mobile home rent…

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied review in City of Milwaukee Post No. 2874 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States v. Redevelopment Agency of the City of Milwaukee, No. 09-1204 (cert. petition filed Apr. 2, 2010).

This is the case challenging the constitutionality of the “undivided fee rule” as applied by the…

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…

Here’s a round up of the latest commentary and analysis of yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-1151.

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Today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11 is generating a lot of analysis and commentary. When the case was filed and argued, we suspected it would generate keen interest, so in anticipation, the ABA’s State and Local Government Law Section assembled…

Here are some links to analysis of today’s U.S. Supreme Court opinions in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11:

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