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
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
It’s not too early to reserve your spot at the 35th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, to be held at the Francis Marion Hotel in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina, January 25-27, 2018.
We’re finalizing the Conference details, but can report that the program will, as usual, feature
It’s no secret: along with a lot of our colleagues, we have thought for a long time that the Supreme Court needs to address the “final decision” prong of the Williamson County ripeness test. Ever since four Justices in 2005 concurred in San Remo Hotel to say so, we’ve been anticipating the case which presents
Back when the opinion was first released, we posted a list of Murr v. Wisconsin links. Now that Court is nearly back from its summer vacation, here’s an updated list:
