A note to our Mainland colleagues: when next you are called to Hawaii on business, if you emulate His Georgeness, you can’t go wrong.
In our Bishop Street Fashion Guide, we commented upon the unwritten rules for the unique haberdashery in Honolulu, and what is considered appropriate business wear for lawyers when not
Here’s the latest in the lengthy West Linn Corporate Park tale from Oregon. After having bounced from federal court, to the Oregon state courts, then back to federal court, the case is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The issue in the case is whether the Ninth Circuit was correct when it
Here are the links to the cases and other items discussed today at the session Regulatory Takings – Looking Back and Looking Forward at the Cal State Bar’s Environmental Law Section’s Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite.
These cases are also in your written materials.
Earlier, we posted Justice Scalia’s assertion at a recent conference that Kelo ranked among the top all-time blown calls by the Supreme Court. While the Kelo majority opinion is decidedly foul, does it really sink to the level of Dred Scott, the opinion in which the Court concluded that Africans could never be U.S.
The Urban Lawyer, the law review produced by the ABA Section of State & Local Goverment Law has published my article Recent Developments in Condemnation Law: Public Use, Private Property, 43 Urban Lawyer 877 (2011).
The article “summarizes recent cases in which the issue was the power of condemnors to take property, including
The Pacific Legal Foundation, the Cato Institute, Professor Paul M. Sullivan, The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, and the Goldwater Institute have filed this amicus brief, supporting the cert petition filed last month in Corboy v. Louie, No. 11-336 (cert. petition filed Sep. 15, 2011).
That’s the case seeking SCOTUS review of the Hawaii
The Supreme court has declined review of Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, 640 F.3d 948 (9th Cir. 2011), the case in which the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a property owner’s claim that the city’s mobilehome rent control ordinance is a taking. The district court dismissed the facial takings claim
Here’s what we are reading this Thursday:
According to the ABA Journal, Justice Antonin Scalia said this:
Justice Antonin Scalia predicted Monday that the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London will be overturned.
Speaking to students at the Chicago-Kent School of Law, Scalia criticized the decision allowing the city of New London to use eminent domain to
Save the date: on Thursday, December 1, 2011 (1:00pm-2:30pm EST, 10:00am-11:30am PST) we’ll be presenting the on-line seminar “Eminent Domain: Redevelopment Challenges for Local Governnment – Navigating Federal Funding Requirements, Challenges for Public Utilities in Right-of-Way Projects, and Objections to Taking for Public Use.“
Joining me are colleagues Anthony Della Pelle (McKirdy