This just in. The Federal Circuit has issued an opinion in Casitas Municipal Water District v. United States, No. 2012-5033 (Feb. 27, 2013), a case we’ve been following for a while.
The court affirmed the CFC’s dismissal of the case on ripeness grounds:
Casitas Municipal Water District (“Casitas”) operates the Ventura River Project (the
Here the first briefs filed in which the parties attempt tofigure out what the Supreme Court meant inArkansas Game and Fish Comm’n v. United States, No. 11-597 (Dec. 4, 2012)
Once the Supreme Court rejected that per se rule of no liability, the Court of Federal Claims in Big Oak Farms, Inc. v.
Here are the links to the materials and briefs from the Supreme Court’s three taking cases which we are discussing at today’s teleconference sponsored by the ABA’s Section on Litigation’s Environmental Litigation Commitee and the Condemnation, Zoning, and Land Use Committee.
Post-telecon note: thanks to everyone for joining us. I will be posting up the
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, the Judiciary and Labor Committee of the Hawaii State Senate will be conducting a public hearing and taking testimony on S.B. 286, a measure which amends a state statute to define “permanent resident” as used in state reapportionment and redistricting as “any person counted as a usual resident of
Did we say free? (If you are an ABA member, that is.)
Join us for a 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, specifically the three cases the U.S. Supreme Court is ruling
Here’s the latest in an issue we’ve been following, just because if the plastic bag ban hasn’t reached your jurisdiction yet, it certainly will (it has been adopted across Hawaii’s counties except for the City and County of Honolulu, for example).So it’s worthwhile to keep up with developments.
Having recently attended the 7th International Conference of the Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights in Portland, Oregon, we offer this irreverent view of that city’s culture, “Insufferable Portland,” by Mark Hemingway at the Weekly Standard. The landscape he portrays should be familiar to anyone who knows Portland, Berkeley, the
Update January 20, 2015: here are links to the most recent reports and the cert-stage briefs in the second go-round for the case: Horne II “The World’s Most Outdated Law” Crahses Headlong Into Takings.
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It’s not really the “Sun-Maid Girl,” but rather the organization the trademark now represents, Sun-Maid Growers of
Here’s a case that illustrates the weird results that can occur in takings cases where a property owner can be deemed to be too late (the statute of limitations) or too early (ripeness), take your pick.
In 1996, Mr. Smith got disbarred by the Tenth Circuit and a few other federal courts, and in 1999
Update: Gideon Kanner’s thoughts on the case here.
As we mentioned in this post about earlier proceedings in the case, when the plaintiff/property owner’s name is “Jerry McGuire” and he is asserting a claim for compensation, it’s inevitable that we all make reference to the “show me the money” catchphrase from Jerry