The Fall edition of State & Local Law News features my article on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Carrigan and Guarnieri. From the Introduction:
The U.S. Supreme Court decided two First Amendment cases this Term of special interest to attorneys practicing state and local government law. In Nevada Comm’n on Ethics v.
On the day we celebrate Constitution Day (or should we say Khaaaaan-stitution Day?) we have to admit that pretty much nothing beats One Named Kirk’s reading of the Preamble.
He might be from Iowa, but that guy who plays him is from north of the border, so our kudos to a Canadian for
In a cert petition filed yesterday, five Hawaii taxpayers argue that they have standing to challenge the constitutionality of property tax exemptions conferred on lessees of Hawaiian Homesteads. Only “native Hawaiians” are eligible to lease homestead land, and thus only those possessing the appropriate blood quantum are entitled to the tax exemptions.
The petitioners
Not hardly. Just check out the amici supporting her (NAACP, Jane Jacobs, et al.).
To drive the point home that many of the property owners on the business end of eminent domain are those who lack political power and influence, check out this brief filed on behalf of New York state Senator Bill Perkins in
Thanks to the Rocky Mountain Appellate Blog for pointing out the Colorado Supreme Court’s recent opinion in The Glenelk Ass’n, Inc. v. Lewis, No. 10SC275 (Sep. 12, 2011), an important decision about the standard of proof in private-way-of-necessity condemnations. The court concluded that a property owner who claimed to be “landlocked” could not condemn
The Governor has filed his Answer to the Star-Advertiser‘s complaint in the case in which the Star-Advertiser is asking the circuit court to order the Governor to release to the public the list of judicial nominees presented to him by the Judicial Selection Commission, now that the Hawaii Senate has consented to the Governor’s
No, it’s not a takings claim, so Williamson County ripeness isn’t a part of the opinion. In Potrero Hills Landfill, Inc. v. County of Solano, No. 10-15229 (Sep. 13, 2011), the Ninth Circuit held that the Younger abstention doctrine did not prevent the district court from considering a § 1983 claim for declaratory and
“This is not what we normally do. We do land use, real estate, development law. Heck, I can get you zoning to be an airport if that’s what you want. But I don’t represent inmates, I don’t represent people charged with crime, I don’t represent criminals.”
— Land use lawyer Joshua
Today, we had the opportunity to take a tour of The Geysers geothermal dry steam field and one of its 16 electricity generation facilities, the McCabe 5 generation plant. The Geysers is the world’s largest energy production site fueled by geothermal.
Twelve miles up a country road from Sonoma County’s vineyards, the field was first