For those of you who are members of the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law’s Land Use Committee (if you aren’t, you can become a member easily; just ask me how), please tune in on June 12, 2015 for our monthly teleconference.
Here’s the announcement:
Our third meeting is scheduled for Friday, June…
As we recognized earlier this week when the U.S. Supreme Court noted probable jurisdiction in a redistricting case out of Texas, Hawaii’s current approach to state legislative reapportionment — under which the Hawaii Reapportionment Commission does not count active duty military, their spouses and children, and university students who pay non-resident tuition (108,000, or nearly…
An interesting decision with an international flavor from the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Helmerich & Payne Int. Drilling Co. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, No. 13-7169 (May 1, 2015).
We suppose that if you are a U.S. oil exploration company operating in Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela, you get used to entertaining…
California law requires a condemnor to present to the property owner a final pre-trial settlement offer 20 days before trial, and for the property owner to make a final demand. If a court later determines that the condemnor’s final offer was unreasonable and the property owner’s final demand was reasonable, the property owner is entitled…
Followers of the blog recognize that in addition to our regular menu of regulatory takings, eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and land use related items, our practice also includes voting rights and election law issues. So every now and then we post up interesting cases and decisions, especially where the issues involved are related to cases…
Those of you who have followed the blog for a while know that we’re big fans of the documentary film about the Atlantic Yards eminent domain fight in New York, “Battle for Brooklyn.” See our review here, for example.
If you haven’t had a chance…
For those of you who might ever have contemplated pulling up stakes and relocating your law practice to the last major inhabited time zone on Planet Earth, check out “A Tale of Two Cities: Honolulu and San Francisco,” by Nick Kacprowski, a lawyer at a “large” Honolulu law firm who recently transplanted…
As the Star-Advertiser reports here (“State pays newspaper for nominees battle“), Hawaii Governor David Ige has signed a bill which appropriates funds for the State to pay a portion of the legal fees and costs incurred by the Star-Advertiser during its lawsuit which compelled former Governor Neil Abercrombie to stop keeping secret the…
In a case we’ve been following, the Kentucky Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court ruling which held that a pipeline company could not exercise the power of eminent domain.
The Bluegrass Pipeline is a 1,100+ mile private pipeline that would deliver natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale formations to the…
Not much new in the Federal Circuit’s opinion in Resource Investments, Inc. v. United States, No. 14-5069 (May 12, 2015), which upheld the dismissal of a Court of Federal Claims takings complaint for lack of jurisdiction under of 28 U.S.C. § 1500.
That statute, as federal takings mavens know (and as the Supreme Court…
