You heard that right. After the Michigan Court of Appeals’ recent ruling in Lanzi v. Township of St. Clair, No. 329795 (May 23, 2017), you should consider skipping the usual Williamson County step of filing your federal takings claims in state court.
In that case, property owners sued the township after the township’s sewage…
As we noted recently, we don’t usually post trial court decisions. But there are exceptions. The Northern District of Florida’s recent order in Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC v. Real Estate, No. 16-cv-00063-MW-GRJ (June 5, 2017), is one of those exceptions.
First of all, our New York City colleague Michael Rikon beat us to…
Here’s one we’ve been waiting for (we filed a brief in support of the property owner), one in which we were hoping (although not expecting) a more favorable result.
In Brott v. United States, No. 16-1466 (May 31, 2017), the Sixth Circuit held that federal inverse condemnation plaintiffs who sue for more than…
Here’s the unanimous Supreme Court opinion, issued this morning in a case we’ve been following, Town of Chester v. Laroe Estates, No. 16-605 (June 5, 2017), a takings case, although the issue resolved by the Court is one of civil procedure.
The Court’s holding is remarkably unremarkable: a plaintiff — including a plaintiff…
A fascinating case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit involving an attempt by a private utility company to take property which is now tribal land.
In Public Service Co. of New Mexico v. Barboan, No. 16-2050 (May 26, 2017), there wasn’t a question that a federal statute prohibited a utility…
Update 6/6/2017: LA denizen Professor Gideon Kanner wrote about this case a couple of years ago on his blog.
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For those of you in the Los Angeles area, you may want to check out an upcoming lecture at the Central Library.
On Thursday, June 8, 2017 at the Mark…
A small but critical mention in the cinema’s greatest closing argument (Dennis Denuto, Esq., above, in The Castle) for the Australia High Court’s decision in Mabo v. Queensland (No. 2), (1992) 175 CLR 1 (1992):
Denuto: It’s the vibe of it.
Judge: Allright, taken. Do you have a precedent which supports this … “vibe?”…
