According to this site, several property owners in Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania, are subject to having their properties taken for expansion of the Philadelphia airport. One owner’s objection has taken an unusual form — he’s written a song about it. Check it out.
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Remember Klumpp v. Borough of Avalon, 997 N.J. 390 (N.J. 2010)? That the case in which the New Jersey Supreme Court held that the six year statute of limitations on inverse condemnation claims did not begin to run until 2005, when the Borough began claiming that a taking occurred, even though it physically took
According to this report, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to review Kelmm v. American Transmission Co., No. 2009AP2784 (Aug. 10, 2010) (a court of appeals’ decision we noted here). In that case, the court of appeals held that in order to obtain litigation expenses under a state statute which provides that
An opinion today from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Association of Irritated Residents v. Envt’l Protection Agency, No. 09-71414 (Feb. 2, 2011)
The case involves whether the EPA properly approved revisions to California’s State Implementation Plan for meeting air quality standards for ozone under the Clean Air Act. The
On Friday, February 4, 2011, starting at 10 a.m. HST, we will be live blogging the Hawaii Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor’s hearing on the appointment of Judge Sabrina McKenna as an Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court. Our Damon Key colleague Rebecca Copeland will be in the room covering it.
We live
Since this is the season for self-congratulatory industry awards, we can’t overlook one of our industry’s highest honors, the Zoning and Planning Law Report Land Use Decision Awards (aka the “ZiPLeRs”). For those of you who do not subscribe to the Zoning and Planning Law Report, the “strangest, or at least more dramatic” land