Yesterday, our ABA and Owners’ Counsel of America colleague Dwight Merriam gave the keynote address at the 7th International Conference of the Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, in Portland, Oregon. Dwight’s presentation, “Getting Past “Yes or No” – Linking Police Power Decision-making with Just Compensation,” centered on the idea
At the recent annual meeting of Owners’ Counsel of America, OCA presented Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Jim Burling with the Crystal Eagle Award, bestowed on “individuals who have made a substantial contribution toward protectingthe civil right of private property ownership.”
I was pleased to offer introductory remarks, which I post here in a slightly
It’s easy to forget that place names are not “real” in the sense that they exist other than in our collective minds, but are impermanent markers bestowed on places by man. There’s nothing that commands New York is “New York,” the Mississippi River to be so named, or the island of Molokai to be called
In a recently-published law review article, U. Hawaii lawprof David Callies found that “the Moon Court [1993-2010] decided some of thestate’s most important property and related environmental and Native Hawaiianrights cases in favor of the various non-governmental organizations bringingthem (Sierra Club, Earthjustice, Hawaii’s Thousand Friends, and the NativeHawaiian Legal Corporation) approximately eighty-two percent of
Here’s a case where the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals’ opinion, while interesting (and, we think, correct), teases us with the underlying story.
In Perry v. Perez-Wendt, No. 30329 (Feb. 8, 2013), a lawyer was in the running to be appointed as the County Attorney for the County of Kauai. Five of his brothers
If you are a member of the ABA, mark your calendars for Tuesday, February 26, 2013, noon to 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, for a free teleconference jointly sponsored by the ABA’s Section on Litigation’s Environmental Litigation Commitee and the Condemnation, Zoning, and Land Use Committee to discuss the latest and greatest in takings law
According to “Moats dug around Chinese villagers’ houses to drive them out,” they’re now resorting siege tactics to deal with holdout “nail houses” in southern China:
Forced evictions and land disputes are a major cause of social unrest in China, where there are tens of thousands of mass incidents each year.
This week
Worth listening: a 17-minute podcast by Professor Richard Epstein, with his thoughts — apparently without a script and seemingly in a single breath — on the oral arguments in Koontz v. St Johns River Water Mgmt Dist., No. 11-1447 (cert. granted Oct. 5, 2012).
Download the mp3 here. If that doesn’t work, go
I did want to make a mention of a sad milestone I wish we didn’t have to come to, the passing of Maui’s irreplaceable land use lawyer B. Martin Luna. Here’s the report from the Maui News.
Having dealt with Martin over the years, he was a true gentleman, and everything that you conjure
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