Here is the Petitioner’s Reply Brief in Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, No. 11-189 (cert. petition filed Aug. 11, 2011). We posted the cert petition and the amici and BIO here.
The cert petition is asking the Supreme Court to revist and discard the ripeness rules of Williamson County Regional
As I travel to Beijing today for the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, I’m drawn back thirty-three years to my first (and only prior) visit to the People’s Republic of China.
It was a different China in 1978. Just emerging after nearly thirty years of isolation and mostly closed off to the western world, it
“There is strong consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is occurring and that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities contribute to climate change.”
So begins Climate Change and Regulatory Takings in Coastal Hawaii, a monograph by Douglas Codiga, Dennis Hwang, and Chris Delaunay, published by the University of Hawaii Sea Grant
We’ve just finalized the agenda and faculty for the Hawaii Water Law conference, to be held in Honolulu on January 11, 2012. I am the planning co-chair along with Jesse Souki, Director of the State of Hawaii Office of Planning.
In addition to Jesse and me, we’ve assembled a diverse and talented faculty:
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
No, it’s not another land use blog as you can tell from the title.
But it is another blog by a law firm colleague, one of the best in the immigration and naturalization business, David McCauley.
David joins the other Damon Key bloggers, Mark Murakami (hawaiioceanlaw.com), Tred Eyerly (insurancelawhawaii.com), and
Yes, you read that right.
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
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
Some day, the Court will grant cert in another eminent domain case.
But today is not that day.
The Court declined to review C & J Coupe Family Ltd. P’ship v. County of Hawaii, No. 11-75, the petition that asked, after Kelo, when is eminent domain pretextual? We represent the petitioner, and