If you are wondering why the doors to most state, county, and city offices are locked today, remember that it isn’t another “furlough Friday,” or the day HGEA is voting on its new contract. No, today is the day that Hawaii celebrates Good Friday.
If you ask how “a religious holiday observed primarily…
Here are the final four briefs in Comm’n on Ethics of the State of Nevada v. Carrigan, No. 10-568 (cert. granted Jan 7, 2011). In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether a state statute which requires elected officials to recuse themselves from considering matters on which they appear to have conflicts…
Comes the sad news that Jess S. Jackson, of the renown Kendall-Jackson wine label, has passed away in his Northern California home. Details here (K-J website), here (San Francisco Chronicle), and here (Santa Rosa Press Democrat). Jackson’s biography reveals a life lived very large: winemaker, business mogul, philanthropist, race horse owner.
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The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and the Reason Foundation have joined the list of parties (us included) who submitted briefs supporting the cert petition in Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, No. 10-1125 (petition for cert. filed Mar. 11, 2011). Their brief is available here.
In that case, California mobile home park…
Here’s another of the amicus briefs in Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, No. 10-1125. The brief of the National Association of Home Builders argues:
The Ninth Circuit in Guggenheim has rejected the widely held principle that regulatory takings claims run with the land for all subsequent title holders. As a result, the availability of…
“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 attorney Joshua…
Beginning at 9:00 a.m. Central Time today, the Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Severance v. Patterson, No. 09-0378 (Nov. 5, 2010), the case in which the court held 6-2 that Texas does not recognize a “rolling” public beachfront access easement, without proof of prescription. In March, the court agreed to rehear the…
On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 starting at 9:00 a.m. Central Time, the Texas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Severance v. Patterson, No. 09-0378 (Nov. 5, 2010), the case in which the court held 6-2 that Texas does not recognize a “rolling” public beachfront access easement, without proof of prescription. Thus, the public…
What we are reading today:
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If you are a fan of Penn Central‘s “investment-backed expectations” factor, or the “notice” defense thought to be put to rest in Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, 533 U.S. 606 (2001), this is your week.
Earlier this week, we posted our amicus brief in Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, No. 10-1125, which argued…
