Check out this story, Excelaron filed $6.24 billion lawsuit against SLO county, and the filing below.
$6.24 billion? According to the story, “[c]ounty Supervisor Adam Hill said the amount being sought makes this one of the largest, if not the largest lawsuit in San Luis Obispo County’s history.”
We’d certainly hope so.
This photo of a “nail house” in Wenling, People’s Republic of China is making the rounds on the internet. The reports (see also here for higher res photos) say that the homeowners refused to take the offers to sell, so the developer built the road around their house. “They are called “nail houses” because the
Here’s the property owner’s merits brief in Koontz v. St Johns River Water Mgmt Dist., No. 11-1447 (cert. granted Oct. 5, 2012).
This case presents two questions:
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case that originated with a taking in 1987 by the DOT. In State of Louisiana, et al v. Monteleone, et al, the Court of Appeals affirmed an award of $1,631,000.50 ($214,534.14 as just compensation for the taking + $1,416,466.40 in severance damages) + $1,584,442.54 in interest + $173,030.00 and legal
As you know, yesterday the Supreme Court granted cert in Horne v. U.S.D.A., No. 12-123 (cert. granted Nov. 20, 2012), the third takings claim this season. As this article asked, what, if anything, is going on? Is it just “serendipity” or a “return to the norm” as two lawprofs quoted in the article
It looks like our crystal balls are working.
Wait, that didn’t come out the way we quite intended, so let’s rephrase. Recently, we and others suggested paying attention to the property rights cases on the Supreme Court’s cert docket, paying particular attention to a case out of the Ninth Circuit, Horne v. United States
Anyone who practices land use law is familiar with the primary jurisdiction and exhaustion of administrative remedies doctrines. These rules require courts to either dismiss claims or abstain from exercising jurisdiction unless and until an administrative agency has first developed the record and passed on the issues. If you’ve got notice of the action you
Believing that discretion was the better part of valor, we didn’t think there would be a challenge to the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals’ opinion in Leone v. County of Maui, No 29692 (June 22, 2012). But we were wrong, and the County of Maui is going all in.
Update Dec. 12, 2012: cert
This article, “Special Report: How a vicious circle of self-interst sank a California city” doesn’t have that much to do with our usual topics, but it’s close enough that we thought we’d pass it along.
It’s one view about how San Bernardino ended up in bankruptcy, and it’s a devastating read.
Planning co-chairs Professor David Callies and Ben Kudo have once again assembled a stellar faculty and put together an agenda that covers