We’ve mentioned Gerald O’Hara’s talk to Scarlett about the importance of land before, and on the occasion of the film’s 75th anniversary had an opportunity to see the entire movie again, fully remastered, and in its original aspect ratio.
There’s still one more chance, if you’re interested. It’s playing in 650 theaters nationwide…
Here’s a very important case from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (Middle District). The question before the court in Reading Area Water Auth. v. Schuylkill River Greenway Ass’n , No. J-13-2014 (Sep. 24, 2014) was this:
The primary question raised is whether a municipal authority may exercise its eminent domain powers to condemn an easement over…
We get to post the California Raisins again!
Last term, in Horne v. U.S. Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 12-123 (June 10, 2013), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a property owner could raise a takings claim as a defense to the government’s attempt to impose a fine pursuant to a complex federal regulatory…
We like the Texas Supreme Court, because (among other things) it livestreams oral arguments, and once completed, archives them for those who can’t be there in person, or watch live. So even though we couldn’t make it to Austin for the arguments earlier this month in Texas v. Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. (a case…
Here’s one to definitely add to your blogroll: Federal Takings, by the rails-to-trails litigation practice at Arent Fox, including our frequent guest blogger, Thor Hearne.
The focus is on rails-to-trails cases, but also by necessity covers takings cases in the Court of Federal Claims and the Federal Circuit. Recent posts include, “Arent Fox …
Here’s one to add to the “unusual takings cases” category, at which we looked at last week.
In Young v. Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, No. 13CA1338 (Sep. 11, 2014), the sheriff raided Mr. Young’s (medical) marijuana grow and seized as evidence “forty-two mariijuana plants by cutting them off just above the roots.”
Now, …
On the day we celebrate Constitution Day (or should we say Khaaaaan-stitution Day?) we have to admit that pretty much nothing beats One Named Kirk’s reading of the Preamble.
He might be from Iowa, but that guy who plays him is from north of the border, so our kudos to a Canadian for…
We’re tied up in court today, so don’t have time to post up the latest cases which have crossed our desk in the past few days.
We will get to them soon, but in the meantime, check out this story (“The Stubborn ‘Nail Houses’ That Refuse to Get Demolished“) from Gizmodo (a blog about…
Like love, takings claims can often be found in some very unusual places. And (like love) unfortunately, those claims are not always successful.
When we think of “takings,” things like eminent domain condemning land, inverse condemnation (of land) by flood waters, and cases like that spring to mind first. Even when regulatory takings are involved…
We’re starting to repeat ourselves. Every year at this time, it seems, we’re saying again that as you get older, you forget birthdays. Thus, it only occurred to us only over the weekend that that this blog’s “birthday” passed without notice. It hardly seems like eight years ago that we posted here for the first…
