Here are some upcoming events in which you may be interested, in chronological order:
Here’s the full agenda for the 2016 Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation / Condemnation 101 Conference, January 28-30, 2016, in Austin, Texas.
Together with our friend and colleague Joe Waldo, we think we’re put together a pretty good program that covers a lot of ground. This is the first time the conference has been
Here’s the Brief in Opposition in the case which asks whether takings claims against the federal government — which we described as subject to a “jurisdictional ambush” due to the old Tucker Act Shuffle — are subject to the rule of 28 U.S.C. § 1500 set out in the Tohono O’odham case.
If that’s a lot
Our friend and colleague Alan Ackerman posted a note on his blog about a recent District Court ruling from the Western District of Virginia which upheld the power of a potential condemnor to enter property for the purposes of survey, without formally taking the property. See “Virginia Federal Judge Follows What May Be the
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*photo courtesy of Joe Sherman (thanks, Joe).
A short one from the Federal Circuit, Rasmuson v. United States, No. 14-5089 (Oct. 5, 2015), that comes out of a rails-to-trails case, but has wider applicability.
The case involved the usual: plaintiffs owned lands over which the railroad had rights of way, and when the railroad ceased operating and the Surface Transportation Board
Followers of the blog understand that in addition to our usual fare of eminent domain, land use, regulatory takings and the like, we also cover another area, election law and voting rights. That’s a weird feature of our practice, so we post about it. Call it “editor’s prerogative” or something.
But there are actually some
Earlier today, I moderated a panel of expert speakers on the topic of “Civil Forfeiture of Property” at the 12th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Sara Sun Beale of Duke Law, Scott Bullock of the Institute for Justice, and Sandra Guerra Thompson of the University of Houston
Greetings from the William and Mary Law School in (rainy) Williamsburg, Virginia, where we’re speaking at the 12th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference.
This year’s B-K Prize winner is Harvard Law’s Joseph Singer, who we wrote is “an interesting choice, given his theory that a ‘robust regulatory structure’ goes hand-in-hand with property
We don’t often post trial court decisions, but this recent ruling from an Idaho trial court awarding a property owner approximately $400,000 in fees and costs was a good read, and we’d like to share it with you all.
This is a ruling issued after a trial to determine just compensation for the partial taking