Next Thursday, February 6, 2014, we’ll be in Chicago to moderate an American Bar Association discussion/debate on a topic that’s not our usual takings-eminent domain-land use stuff, but is still one of the hotter topics around. “They’ll Take My Big Gulp From My Cold Dead Hands” is an hour-and-a-half with three experts in
We were all set to write up the latest case from the Federal Circuit, Banks v. United States, No. 12-5067 (Jan. 24, 2014), when our colleagues at Pacific Legal Foundation beat us to it with this post, “Federal Circuit revives Lake Michigan takings case.”
The Federal Circuit agreed, holding that the property
We often jokingly suggest that in eminent domain, “it’s good to be the King!” quoting that eminent eminent domain scholar Mel Brooks. We think this catchphrase aptly describes the “most awesome grant of power,” City of Oakland v. Oakland Raiders, 220 Cal. Rptr. 153, 155 (Cal. App. 1985), under which the condemnor
Today, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued an option in Diamond v. Dobbin, No. SCWC-30573 (Jan. 27, 2014), a case about shoreline certifications that we’ve been following.
It’s a beach case, obviously, but not about ownership. Shoreline certifications approved by the State Department of Land and Natural Resources are used as the baseline from which
This: apropos of pretty much nothing that are the usual subjects of this blog. But felt compelled to share anyway.
Guy without a harness, three stories up, shaping and nailing flashing to a roof in New Orleans. Standing on a palette. On the end of the arm of a crane. Being operated by a guy
One of the perks of attending the annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation conference (this year in New Orleans) is that in addition to 2 1/2 days of high-level CLE programming involving our favorite topic, you get to meet colleagues from across the nation (and internationally – expropriation lawyers from Canada were also with
Coy Koontz, Jr., the prevailing property owner in Koontz v. St. Johns Water Management District, No. 11-1147 (June 25, 2013) joined our Pacific Legal Foundation colleague Jim Burling for an interview on Fox and Friends.
Kudos to Jim and Mr. Koontz for getting down to the studio
Between sessions at the annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation conference in New Orleans, planning Chair Joe Waldo took to the mic to say a few words about his co-Chair, Leslie Fields. Yesterday, Leslie announced that after 10 years, she’s retiring as Chair of the conference and that she is also retiring from the
Here are the cert briefs in Kellberg v. Yuen, No. SCWC-12-0000266 (Haw. Jan. 22, 2014), the case in which the Hawaii Supreme Court held that there is only one “final decision” that a challenger must administratively appeal when objecting, and that due process requires the agency to give a challenger notice of the administrative
This morning, I joined my Owners’ Counsel colleagues Leslie Fields and Joe Waldo (the programming co-chairs), and more than 100 fellow eminent domain experts in New Orleans under the auspices of ALI-CLE at our annual gathering for the start of 2 1/2 days of legal education.
Joe and Leslie asked me to join Professor James