We’ve been kind of busy in the last few days with a couple of appellate briefs, so haven’t had a lot of time to post up the latest cases and articles of interest. But here’s what we are reading today, in between brief writing:
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In this press release issued yesterday, the Hawaii Judicial Selection Commission announced it has amended its rules so that from now on, the JSC “will release the names of the nominees transmitted to the Governor or Chief Justice at the time they are transmitted and will be permitted to disclose statistical and historical information…
In case you missed out on the 8th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, held last month in Beijing, check out this video (here is the page with links to all of our posts related to the conference).
The Conference was a resounding success, and featured presentations and papers by the creme de la creme…
Here’s what’s going on:
“We are extremely pleased,” said newspaper attorney…
Filarsky v. Delia, No. 10-1018 (cert. granted Sep. 27, 2011) is not the typical case for this blog. It’s not a land use case, and involves a question of the immunities that lawyers may be entitled to claim in civil rights actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
But since section 1983 claims and defenses…
This just in: In Los Angeles County Metro. Trans. Auth. v. Alameda Produce Market, LLC, No. S188128 (Nov. 14, 2011), the California Supreme Court held:
Under California’s “quick-take” eminent domain procedure, a public entity filing a condemnation action may seek immediate possession of the condemned property upon depositing with the court the probable compensation…
As we noted here, the circuit court today ordered Governor Abercrombie to make public the list of nominees for the vacancy on the Hawaii Supreme Court (eventually filled by Justice McKenna) that was transmitted to him from the Judicial Selection Commission earlier this year. More from the Star-Advertiser‘s breaking news story here.…
In a ruling delivered today, Circuit Judge Karl Sakamoto ordered Governor Abercrombie to publicly release the list of names transmitted to the Governor by the Judicial Selection Commission earlier this year for the vacancy on the Court that was subsequently filled by Justice Sabrina McKenna. Star-Advertiser v. Abercrombie, No. 11-1-1871-08. We represent the newspaper…
West Linn Corporate Park LLC v City of West Linn, No. 11-299 (petition for cert. filed Sep. 6, 2011), a petition we’ve been following that asked whether the nexus and “rough proportionality” tests for a regulatory taking in Nollan and Dolan are limited to government demands for land, has been denied.
California and…
