Are you like us and cannot type, write, or say “statue” without it coming out “statute?” That’s an affliction we’ve had since law school days, and one we’re probably never going to shake.
As lawyers, we’ve all no doubt seen plenty of crappy statutes in our careers.
But, at the risk of being offensive
Tomorrow, Thursday, October 6, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. at Aliiolani Hale, the Hawaii Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case we’ve been following (we filed an amicus brief in the case, supporting the property owner on the first Question Presented), County of Kauai v. Hanalei River Holdings, Ltd., No. SCWC-14-0000828.
The
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following, and which earlier resulted in a very good decision from the North Carolina Supreme Court.
In Kirby v. North Carolina Dep’t of Transportation, No 56PA14-2 (June 10, 2016), the N.C. Supreme Court held that the “Map Act,” a statute by which the DOT designated vast
We’ve teased some of the details on the 2017 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation and Condemnation 101 Conference, to be held at the Westin San Diego, January 26-28, 2017, but here are the details you’ve been waiting for.
This is the “big one,” our annual 3-day festival of all things eminent domain
There’s a lot of pages in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s opinion (and two concurring opinions) in Robinson Township v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, No. J-34A-2016 (Sep. 28, 2016), and the good stuff from the headline starts on page 78. But to understand the case, you need a bit of background.
Pennsylvania has been one of
