The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has issued yet another opinion about the redevelopment taking of Skyland Shopping Center.
DeSilva v. District of Columbia, No. 10-CV-1069 (Feb. 24, 2011) is not a compelling opinion, nor even a very interesting read; but it is worth a few minutes of your time since it
Thousands of years from now, when future archaeologists and historians are reconstructing our civilization from the ruins, it is easy to imagine how they might misinterpret the function of shopping malls. Rather than climate-controlled centralized temples of consumerism, or teen hangouts with abundant parking, the historical record might suggest that malls were august civic centers
Honolulu attorney Jay Fidell (who also produces Think Tech Hawaii) writes a regular column in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. This week, he focuses on land use in “Labyrinthine land-use law suffocating isle economy,” where he writes:
Everyone knows our state, like others, is in a fiscal and economic crisis. We need to
At yesterday’s debate (video archived here) sponsored by Honolulu Civil Beat, “Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future” about the problems that have arisen in Hawaii in the time since the publication of the book The Price of Paradise 20 years ago, U. Hawaii lawprof David Callies revealed a stunning statistic. He noted that
Anyone who is a regular reader of this blog knows Mike Berger. If you don’t immediately recognize his name just check the reports of decisions because you certainly know his cases, which include: Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (2002), City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey, Ltd. (1999), Preseault
In a recent op-ed, Tennessee attorney Jeremy Hopkins
Al-Qaida, the Klan and property activists? (Jan. 20, 2011)
A Virginia Department of Emergency Management’s training manual (“Terrorism & Security Awareness Orientation for State Employees”) has labeled “property rights activists” as terrorists.
The manual contains a list of “Terrorist Organizations,” and includes Hamas, al-Qaida, and Hezbollah
The Washington Supreme Court held that a state statute allowing relocation benefits to property owners displaced by an exercise of eminent domain does not impliedly allow the property owner to recover prejudment interest on the award:
This case involves whether interest is allowable as part of an award of relocation assistance benefits under the relocation
Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley, and David Beilinson, the makers of “Battle of Brooklyn,” a documentary about the controversial Atlantic Yards project, screened a rough cut of their film last night at the American Law Institute-American Bar Association’s eminent domain law conference. It’s an inside look at one property owner at the
At today’s ALI-ABA annual conference on eminent domain law in Coral Gables, Florida, Tony Della Pelle (NJ Condemnation Law blog) and I (in a session moderated by Nancy Myrland) presented “The ‘Social’ Lawyer: New Media Strategies for Marketing Your Eminent Domain Practice,” about how eminent domain attorneys can use social media for
This just in: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued an opinion in Klamath Irrigation District v. United States, No. 2007-5115 (Feb. 17, 2010), a case we’ve been watching.
I’m at the ALI-ABA conference on eminent domain in Coral Gables, Florida, so won’t have the chance to digest and summarize