There’s apparently a huge backlog in California of liens which workers’ comp medical providers file to seek payment for services they’ve provided to injured workers.
These are liens possessed by service providers for workers whose employers declined to provide treatment on the ground it is not work related. In those cases, the worker may seek
Nobody’s perfect, as much as we may want them to be. Least of all fictional characters. But Atticus Finch, the Alabama lawyer portrayed in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the celebrated film, seemed above reproach.
The first year we sponsored the Law in Film festival, we had to feature “
In North Carolina, a property owner has a right to direct access to adjacent highways, and “[i]f the State’s action eliminates all direct access to the abutting road, then the action is ‘a taking as a matter of law.'” Dep’t of Transportation v. Harkey, 301 S.E.2d 64, 71 (N.C. 1983). And it doesn’t matter
Here’s an article by IJ’s Dana Berliner, a retrospective on public use in eminent domain and where the decade since Kelo has left us.
It is a sign of the constitutional damage Kelo caused that these two related features of the opinion—blind deference and the refusal to engage with facts—have marked post-Kelo jurisprudence.
ALI-CLE has posted the registration page for the 2016 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Conference, in Austin. Register now for a $200 discount off the tuition. Or you can sign up for notification when the full brochure is published.
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Donald Trump is garnering a lot of press these days for things not related to eminent domain. And there’s a lot of awareness of the high-profile eminent domain battle in New Jersey, in which he was the “B” in an attempted “A to B” taking. But not everyone is as aware of a later, similar
Remember the Roca Solida case? That’s the follow up to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation, 131 S. Ct. 1723 (2011), highlighting the jurisdictional problem in takings cases which that case left open. We labeled it a “jurisdictional ambush” that awaits any property owner who has a takings
The Solicitor General of South Carolina has issued this opinion letter, answering the following three questions about a state statute which “purports to confer all rights, powers, and privileges given to telegraph and telephone companies” to pipeline companies:
The Land Use Institute, a program that for many years has been planned by co-chairs Frank Schnidman and Gideon Kanner, has found a new home with the American Bar Association’s Section of State and Local Government Law as the main sponsor. It also has a new Planning co-chair, Dean Patty Salkin of Touro Law