Update: 10/28/2019: “Lights Out in the Land of No: The Practical Effects of California’s Wildfire Inverse Condemnation Doctrine,” a post about the (ongoing) wildfires and latest developments in inverse condemnation doctrine.
Update 3/12/2018: “California Wildfires, Inverse Condemnation, and Climate Change,” a post about the various responses to the wildfire inverse condemnation
Here are the final two amici briefs in in Jarreau v. South LaFourche Levee District, No. 17-163 (cert. petition filed July 31, 2017), the case asking the Court to consider whether a property owner whose business is destroyed due to an exercise of eminent domain is entitled to just compensation for business losses under the
Okay, we get it: the text of a statute is the text, and it says what it says. And Virginia’s “buyback” statute — which says that if a condemning agency hasn’t started the project for which property was condemned within 20 years, the agency must reconvey it to the owner upon demand — dictates that
Here’s the Reply Brief and Brief in Opposition in Jarreau v. South LaFourche Levee District, No. 17-163 (cert. petition filed July 31, 2017), the case asking the Court to consider whether a property owner whose business is destroyed due to an exercise of eminent domain is entitled to just compensation for business losses.
The
We usually don’t post trial court decisions, preferring instead to wait until the issue works its way up the food chain. But we make exceptions to that general rule when a case catches our eye and is either unusual or otherwise interesting. The U.S. District Court’s opinion in Williams v. The National Gallery of Art,
Here’s one we’ve been meaning to post for a while because it is on one our favorite (sub)topics: attorneys’ fees in eminent domain. Indeed, it is about what we consider a very interesting subtopic of the subtopic, the question of whether an owner can recover attorneys’ fees for the efforts expended in recovering attorneys’ fees
We were all set to dive into the California Court of Appeal’s opinion (rendered in September, but only published yesterday) in Dryden Oaks, LLC v. San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, No. D069161 (Oct. 19, 2017), when our colleague Bryan Wenter beat us to the punch.
So we won’t go into detail, and recommend
The complete agenda and faculty list has now been posted on the ALI-CLE website, and early registration is open! Go now and reserve your spot.
We paid a visit to Charleston recently, the venue for our January 2018 conference, to scout it out. We can report that we’re going to have a great time
Check your mailboxes, the latest edition of the University of Hawaii Law Review is there or is coming. Got ours yesterday. This is the issue with the articles from the symposium (including ours on the ridesharing takings cases) on legal issues in the “sharing economy.”
Earlier today, I spoke to the Hawaii State Bar Association in a session sponsored and produced by the HSBA’s Appellate Section (the best section in the HSBA, by the way), titled “The Top Ten Appellate Traps (And How To Avoid Them).”
My Damon Key colleague Chris Leong (also
