After the recent Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in the Netherlands (very appropriate, as it was the home of the Dutch lawyer and property rights guy Hugo Grotius), we had the opportunity to visit one of that country’s notable museums, where we came across this odd piece, a somewhat worn and nondescript wooden
After a short absence and a change of lead sponsor (from ALI-CLE, to the American Bar Association’s Section of State and Local Government Law), the Land Use Institute is back on.
Download the print brochure here, or visit the LUI web site for more. It will be held February 1-2, 2017, in Miami
Remember that decision by the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals that we posted a few months ago, after the Hawaii Supreme Court granted discretionary review? The case involved a question of how appeals are brought and filed in cases challenging a voter’s registration. In Hyland v. Gonzales, the ICA held that an appellant who was
There’s been a few decisions recently about entry to private property in anticipation of condemnation, the most prominent being a ruling from the California Supreme Court that entries which exceed relatively minor inconveniences are takings; the court “reformed” the entry statute to import some of the protections of the eminent domain process, but otherwise gave
Here’s the follow up to that cert petition we recently posted. In Romanoff v. United States, 815 F.3d 809 (Fed. Cir. 2016), a rails-to-trails case, the Federal Circuit was confronted with a question about how New York property law treated an easement. In that case, the easement was granted for railroad purposes, and
Here’s the final brochure for the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Conference, set for January 26-28, 2017, in San Diego.
Early registration gets you a discount (code CY009MK), as does multiple registrations from one office, so now’s the time to commit to joining us for our annual gathering (the 34th Annual) of
A piece from noted eminent domain scholar Professor Ilya Somin, “Beware misguided ‘mainstream’ legal thought – ‘Kelo v. City of New London’ in perspective” at the Washington Post.
The thrust of his piece (and a forthcoming law review article) is that Kelo isn’t some nutty decision, but was the product of “mainstream legal
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following (because we filed an amicus brief in the Federal Circuit in support of the property owners, and will be filing a brief in support of the cert petition).
This is the case about New York City’s “Highline,” the abandoned elevated rail line which was converted into
Here’s what we’re reading today.
SCOTUSblog has posted a summary of a recent lecture by Professor James Ely (recently also returned from the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in the Hague) at the Supreme Court Historical Society, about whether “the Progressive-Era court largely accommodated social and political reforms, diminished protections previously afforded to property owners