Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking to members of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association about some of the legal issues facing their businesses, and property owners in general. Here are the links I mentioned:
Today, on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders and the Wisconsin Building Association, we filed this brief amici curiae 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).
The brief
Takings International is a comparative study
Yesterday, we filed this motion for leave to file brief amicus curiae and a copy of the proposed brief in support of the application for writ of certiorari which asks the Hawaii Supreme Court to review the decision of the Intermediate Court of Appeals in Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. State of Hawaii
We’re still on the road so haven’t had time to digest this eminent domain decision in more detail, but here’s a short summary.
In an unpublished opinion in Council of San Benito County Governments v. McNamee, No. H033989 (Apr. 27, 2010, the California Court of Appeal (Sixth District) rejected the property owners’ argument
The property owners have filed an application for a writ of certiorari asking the Hawaii Supreme Court to review the decision of the Intermediate Court of Appeals in Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. State of Hawaii, 122 Haw. 34, 222 P.3d 441 (Haw. Ct. App. 2009).
Disclosure: we filed an amicus brief supporting
I’m on the road so haven’t had the opportunity to digest this one in more detail.
In an unpublished opinion in Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles v. Kramer Metals, No. B208726 (Apr. 23, 2010, the California Court of Appeal (Second District) held:
Kramer Metals, a California partnership, Stanley J. Kramer
The Solicitor General has filed the federal government’s Brief in Opposition in Sharp v. United States, No. 09-820 (cert. petition filed Jan. 7, 2010) (Supreme Court docket entry here).
In that case, the property owners are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit’s decision in United States v. Milner,
At its upcoming April 30, 2010 conference, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering the cert petition in a case we’ve been following since it was decided by the Court of Federal Claims. In Palmyra Pacific Seafoods, L.L.C. v. United States, No. 09-766 (cert. petition filed Dec. 28, 2009), the Court is presented with the
According to this City Room blog post at the New York Times, Daniel Goldstein, the “last Atlantic Yards holdout” and the driving force behind Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, has agreed to cease his objections to the taking of his family home in return for $3 million. For a statement from Mr. Goldstein, see