It’s easy to report when you win a case, not so easy when you … don’t (at least not yet).
That’s the result in this stage of the Hawaii reapportionment case, as yesterday, a three-judge U.S. District Court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and entered summary judgment for the state defendants. We…
We’ve been offline for a few days, but wanted to pick up this decision in an important case we’ve been following about the valuation of protective dunes on the Jersey Shore, and general and special benefits.
In Borough of Harvey Cedars v. Karan, No. 070512 (July 8, 2013), the New Jersey Supreme Court held…
Another date to save on your calendar: the 2014 Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights will be held from February 11-14, 2014 in Haifa, Israel, at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The Conference will include the usual presentations, plus day-long workshops, and excursions. You don’t need to be…
Here’s one we’ve been meaning to post for a few days because it involves the nuts-and-bolts of eminent domain and inverse condemnation work — the calculation of just compensation and damages, and another victory for colleague Thor Hearne.
In a rails-to-trails taking case our of Florida, McCann Holdings, Ltd. v. United States, No.
Here’s the amicus brief filed today by Pacific Legal Foundation in Mehaffy v. United States, No. 12-1416 (cert. petition filed June 5, 2013).
That’s the case in which the Supreme Court is being asked to review to review the Federal Circuit’s unpublished opinion in which the court affirmed the Court of Federal Claims’ grant…
Generally, we don’t plug seminars that might compete with our own, but in this case, we made an exception because the faculty for this one consists of three people we could just not go without hearing from.
On Thursday, July 11, 2013, Law Seminars International is sponsoring “Koontz v. St. Johns River Water …
Here’s some of the stories and commentary we’ve been reading about the Supreme Court’s decision in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, No. 11-1147 (June 25, 2013:
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Do regulations that exist at the time that a property owner purchases his land negate any expectation that he will be able to use the land productively? Not according to this amici brief, filed today in Mehaffy v. United States, No. 12-1416 (cert. petititon filed June 5, 2013).
The cert petition asks the…
We’ve commented on the various plans (mostly backed by a private venture capital outfit out of San Francisco) to have local municipalities seize underwater-but-performing morrtgages by eminent domain (see here and here, for example). Apparently the brainchild of Cornell lawprof Robert Hockett and sold as a “no lose” situation (see “Paying Paul …
Some things are constant: the speed of light, the sun rises in the east. And Professor John Echeverria, the well-known environmental lawprof, has never met a taking he’s liked.
Even if that means disagreeing in one takings case with Justice Ginsburg writing for a unanimous Supreme Court, the unanimous Court in another takings…
