This just in: the Hawaii Supreme Court has rendered a unanimous opinion in Leone v. County of Maui, No. SCAP-15-599 (Oct. 16, 2017), a case we’ve naturally been following because it involves regulatory takings (and we were involved in a similar case on a neighboring property).
We haven’t had a chance to review the
University of Hawaii Law School Professor David Callies last night was presented with William and Mary Law School’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize which is “presented annually to a scholar, practitioner or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental importance of property rights.”
As W&M notes about Professor Callies, a “prolific scholar whose work explores land use
A lot of you read or get published in The Urban Lawyer, the scholarly journal published the ABA’s Section of State and Local Government Law (my Section). It’s our flagship publication: it is published quarterly, and has the largest circulation of any journal devoted to the Section’s subjects. A subscription is included
A quick one since we’re in transit, and don’t really have time to post much. But that doesn’t mean that the Fifth Circuit’s opinion in Boerschig v. Trans-Pecos Pipeline, L.L.C. , No. 16-50931 (Oct. 3, 2017), isn’t worth your time to read in-depth.
Here’s the setup:
Texas law allows a natural gas utility to
The HSBA Bar Convention is being held on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at the Hawaii Convention Center.
The Appellate Section has a wonderful line-up for the morning (9:00 am – Noon), and our wonderful line-up of speakers:
As the title of Dep’t of Transportation v. Adams Outdoor Advertising of Charlotte LP, No. 206PA16 (Sep. 29, 2017) might indicate, this is a condemnation case involving billboard valuation in North Carolina. But the issues in the case go much deeper, we think.
On the surface, the North Carolina