Here’s what we’re reading today:
Civil procedure fans, rejoice. Here’s one to take you to the weekend.
We say that because although Laroe Estates, Inc. v. Town of Chester, No. 15-1086 (July 6, 2016), was a regulatory takings case, the issue — whether a third party could intervene — was not really dependent on the underlying Fifth Amendment claim.
We’re meeting some deadlines today, so we don’t have much time to digest in detail the closely split decision by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in In re Condemnation by Sunoco Pipeline, L.P., No. 1979 C.D. 2015 (July 14, 2016).
The short story is that the majority upheld the power of Sunoco to take private
We were all set to post our thoughts on the Illinois Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Hampton v. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, No. 119861 (July 8, 2016), when we were beaten to the punch by Erin Baker, an associate of our colleague (and fellow U. Hawaii law alum) Julie Tappendorf
For those of you who have always wanted a career in appellate law, or who have mused about pulling up stakes and practicing law in the rarefied air of Hawaii’s appellate courtrooms, here’s your chance:
The Appellate Division of the Hawaii Department of the Attorney General seeks to fill two vacancies for Deputy Solicitors General.
Here’s the amici brief we filed today in a fascinating case we told you about recently.
The core issue in Brott v. United States, No. 16-1466, which is currently being briefed in the Sixth Circuit, is whether plaintiffs who allege the United States took their property in a rails-to-trails case can only bring