When we eminent domain lawyers deal with claims that the government or some other entity is “stealing” someone’s property, we recognize that such claims are somewhat … metaphorical.
But here’s a situation where it appears that some poor fellow actually had his house, like, stolen. As in hijacked, ripped off, five-finger discounted.
The Daily…
Civil Beat has a piece by Ian Lind (“Hawaii Monitor: Why Has Florida Company Picked a Fight Over Aerial Advertising?“) that has more on that story we first posted about here (“Hawaii Under Attack From The Air!“). He writes:
Local attorney and blogger, Robert Thomas (InverseCondemnation.com), has commented that…
We usually don’t pay a whole lot of attention to unpublished opinions. Not that they are not interesting mind you, but if the court itself, for whatever reason doesn’t believe the case is worthy of publication, then who are we to say otherwise? But occasionally, we read one that has something worth sharing. Like this…
When the one side or the other in the public debate complains about “judicial activism,” they’re usually talking about judges legislating from the bench — finding new rights, reading words into statutes that aren’t there, and the like. But that species of judicial activism doesn’t bother us all that much since we rarely see it…
Here’s a law review article that you might find worthy. In Property as the Law of Democracy (pdf here), Harvard lawprof Joseph Singer writes that “[p]roperty is not merely the law of things. Property is the law of democracy.” Heady stuff, for sure.
As the abstract notes:
In both his article Property as…
By statute, California property owners have four years to . Proposition 13 is the ____.
In Olive Land Industrial Park, LLC v. County of San Diego, No. D063337 (July 18, 2014), the Court of Appeal held that
A nonmandatory interpretation of the time limitation also promotes the
constitutionally-mandated just compensation principles governing eminent domain…
Here’s an interesting one from the Georgia Supreme Court. In Dillard Land Investments, LLC v. Fulton County, No. S13G1582 (July 11, 2014), the court held that a condemning agency could not voluntarily dismiss an eminent domain action, after a special master has entered a just compensation award but before the agency has paid the…
To those of you who joined us at the ABA’s Land Use, Planning, and Development Forum, thank you. Here are links to some of the topics I mentioned:
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There’s still time to register and attend the upcoming seminar,”Hawaii’s Shoreline and Coastal Law and Regulation.” It’s scheduled for Friday, July 18, 2014, in downtown Honolulu at the YWCA. Here’s the description:
This program will cover recent Hawaii case law, including the recent Hawaii Supreme Court decision regarding identifying the certified shoreline. Now…
Here’s what caught our attention today:
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