Today, starting at 9:00 a.m. HST, we’ll be live blogging the Hawaii Senate Judicary Committee’s continued hearing on the Governor’s appointment of attorney David Louie as Attorney General.
We live blogged the first hearing last week.
April 2011
Federal Circuit: Temporary Flooding Causing Permanent Damage Is Not A Taking
In Arkansas Game & Fish Comm’n v. United States, No. 2009-5121 (Mar. 30, 2011), a case in which the Game and Fish Commission asserted that the Corps of Engineers’ deviations from a dam’s operating plan caused increased flooding and resulted in the destruction of trees, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit…
Minn S Ct: $170k Decrease In Value Is A Regulatory Taking … Under State Constitution
By Robert H. Thomas on
In DeCook v. Rochester Int’l Airport Joint Zoning Bd., No. A09-96 (Mar. 30, 2011), the Minnesota Supreme Court held that a $170,000 decrease in market value casued by an airport zoning ordinance was a compensable regulatory taking. Applying the Minnesota Constitution’s takings clause, the court held that when a regulation designed to benefit a…