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Update: Forbes is covering this story, here: Nick Sibilla, “Landowner’s Bill Of Rights Are Not ‘Suggested Guidelines,’ Georgia Supreme Court Rules

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Here’s a decision which we’ve been waiting for in a case we’ve been following since it was decided in the intermediate appellate court, involving Georgia’s “landowner bill

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

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.

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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