Synchronicity. Serendipity. Yin and Yang. Sometimes things just seem to work out.
Exhibit A: No sooner do we post a case about when inverse condemnation cases are filed too late (see Federal Circuit On The Metaphysics Of Takings Claim Accrual), what comes across our desk? A case about when inverse
From Oregon Live comes the report that a Portland attorney who was fighting to keep his office building (a converted Victorian), from being taken, has prevailed.
After a years-long fight in which Randal Acker, a commercial litigation lawyer, vowed to “do eminent domain law for the next two years to save the house” if necessary
Here’s an interesting court of appeal decision about the intersection of technology and direct democracy from the epicenter of citizen lawmaking, California.
In Ni v. Slocum, No. A128721 (June 30, 2011), the court held that a voter using his smartphone to put his “electronic signature” on a petition does not qualify as “personally affixing”
Update: Civil Beat published a version of this post here.
We know lawyers are easy targets (we enjoy lawyer jokes as much as the next person, i.e., What’s the difference between a good lawyer and a great lawyer? A good lawyer knows the law; a great lawyer knows the judge.). Still, as