We haven’t had time to write up our thoughts about today’s unanimous Supreme Court opinion in Horne v. U.S. Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 12-123, but to tide you over until then, here are the initial reports on the case:
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Here are links to the cases and other materials we spoke about at today’s teleconference with Professor Dan Mandelker and my OCA colleague Dwight Merriam:
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Looks like the Supreme Court tackled the easier of the two remaining takings cases first. This morning, the Court issued a unanimous opinion, authored by Justice Thomas, reversing the Ninth Circuit and holding that federal courts have jurisdiction to hear a property owner’s defense in a case where the agency has imposed or seeks to…
It’s not about eminent domain, land use, or any of the other topics we find fascinating, but it’s worth following: a law blog by a sitting federal judge.
It’s “Hercules and the Umpire,” and is written by Senior District Judge Richard Kopf, of the District of Nebraska. He explains why he’s doing…
We’re going to break the “fourth wall” for a moment, since some of our readers have reported issues with the blog loading properly when accessed via the web (www.inversecondemnation.com).
Now this may seem a bit redundant for those of you who already regularly access our content via the web site, but many of…
Here’s the Reply Brief, filed by the petitioner/property owner in Estate of Hage v. United States, No. 12-918 (cert. petition filed Jan. 17, 2013).
That’s the case in which the Federal Circuit held that a 22-year old takings case was not ripe because even though the agency denied Hage’s every application for a grazing…
As we mentioned yesterday when we posted the Brief in Opposition, here’s the Reply Brief of Petitioner (the City of Los Angeles) in City of Los Angeles v. Lavan, No 12-1073 (cert. petition filed Feb. 28, 2013), the case in which the Ninth Circuit in a 2-1 panel decision held that the city…
Here’s the Brief in Opposition filed recently in City of Los Angeles v. Lavan, No 12-1073 (cert. petition filed Feb. 28, 2013), the case in which the Ninth Circuit in a 2-1 panel decision held that the city could not presume that property owned by homeless people in the Skid Row area was abandoned…
The Washington Post reports that “Bob Fletcher, who saved farms of interned Japanese Americans, dies at 101,” and tells one small and little-known part of America’s internent of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.
Once the evacuation was ordered and the internments began, Fletcher “quit his job [as a state agricultural inspector]…
Congratulations: if you understood that headline (much less are eager to read this post), you are officially a takings geek.
As we noted earlier, after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Arkansas Game and Fish Comm’n v. United States, No. 11-597 (Dec. 4, 2012), the Court of Federal Claimsin Big Oak Farms…
