December 2017

IMG_20171211_090714This photo of the view from the lectern at the start of the day
proves we really
were in the room and not distracted by all the distractions
possible in Las Vegas

Here are the materials and cases which I spoke about earlier today at the CLE International Eminent Domain Conference in Las Vegas. I

 A short one, an unpublished and unsigned opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Warner v. City of Marathon, No. 16-10086 (Dec. 8, 2017).

As the title of this post indicates, the claims made by the plaintiff included a regulatory takings claim. The facts and details of their claims are

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Ten years is a long time, even in non-blogging years. But in blog years, it’s darn near an eternity. Law blogs aren’t too hard to start, but they take a lot of time and effort to maintain: Finding materials of interest to your reader. Digesting and understanding those materials. Posting analysis that you can live

Remember Brott v. United States, the case we last posted about here (“New Cert Petition: Property Owners Entitled To Jury & Article III Judge In Federal Inverse Cases“)? The Question Presented in that case is whether “the federal government take private property and deny the owner the ability to vindicate his constitutional

Here’s a case about the denominator in a regulatory takings case from July 2017, just after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Murr v. Wisconsin. We somehow missed the opinion when it was issued, but since we think it must be the first case which attempted to apply the Murr majority’s multi-factor test

A very interesting public use opinion from the Colorado Court of Appeals. In Carousel Farms Metropolitan District v. Woodcrest Homes, Inc., No. 2017COA149 (Nov. 30, 2017), the court invalidated an attempted taking of Woodcrest’s property, concluding that the condemnation was neither for a public purpose, nor necessary for that purpose.

The facts of