Here’s what we’re reading this fine summer Monday:
- Discussing vested rights at the County Council – Planet Kauai’s Charley Foster writes about the County of Kauai’s proposed ordinance limiting growth in “transient accomodation units,” and the vested rights issue. Charley kindly recommends our law review article on the vested rights/zoning estoppel issue.
- Land Use Institute – Although we won’t be able to attend the upcoming annual ALI-ABA program in Boston due to a scheduling conflict, we have attended several times in the recent past, and can highly recommend it. The faculty, as usual, is stellar, and includes colleagues Michael Berger, Amy Brigham Boulris, Bob Foster, Patricia Salkin, Julie Tappendorf, and Gideon Kanner.
- U.S. Civil Rights Commission Briefing on Eminent Domain Abuses – From C-SPAN, a video. Gideon Kanner comments here.
- 2011 Takings Conference – Another law conference (November 19, 2011), this one devoted (mostly) to how to defeat regulatory takings claims. Quite an impressive faculty
- Appellate Lawyers Challenge to Write Twitter-Length Briefs – Apparently taking Justice Kennedy’s thoughts about legal briefs (“I have yet to put down a brief and say, ‘I wish that had been longer”), the Texas Bar is seeking appellate briefs of 140 characters or shorter. Gd luck w/that.
- An issue of congressional residency – Dave Shapiro talks about where Congresspeople live (when they are not in D.C.). Residency questions always pique our interest, and we’ve dealt with the issue most recently in a case about whether the Lanai councilmember on the Maui County Council was really a resident of Lanai.