October 2011

Next week, power adapters and internet connectivity permitting, we’ll be blogging from the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.

Admin note: We’ve added “Brigham-Kanner Conference” as a separate category to catalog the posts related to the Conference. In order to read all of the

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Yesterday, we posted most of the amici briefs in Sackett v. EPA, No. 10-1062, the case in which Idaho property owners are asserting their right to challenge the EPA’s assertion that a portion of their land are “wetlands.” But we saved one for a separate post, because it was

Wade-front-page-small Thanks to the folks at the Environmental Law Institute, who have allowed us to reprint an article from a recent Environmental Law Reporter by William W. Wade, Ph.D., a resource economist with the firm Energy and Water Economics (Columbia, Tennessee). Bill is a frequent author and speaker on the Penn Central issue, and he’s

Last week, the petitioners filed their merits brief in Sackett v. EPA, No. 10-1062, the case in which Idaho property owners are asserting their right to challenge the EPA’s assertion that a portion of their land are “wetlands.”

A multitude of amicus briefs have been filed to support the Sackett’s arguments. We haven’t had