A water district, with regulatory approvals and permits from the California Department of Health Services, added chemicals — “secondary disinfectants” — to the tap water system to make the water safe to drink. The water complied with all federal and California drinking standards.
Sounds good. No one wants undrinkable drinking water. Problem was these additives caused
Another week, another Federal Circuit panel opinion on takings authored by Judge Timothy Dyk (following the recent MR-GO opinion). And you know what that means: property owners lose.
The Court of Federal Claims concluded that the feds had taken the plaintiff’s lease of of a part of Dallas’ Love Field — under both a
The conference is being held at the Arizona Biltmore.
Proof that we are actually in the room (and not on the golf course).
Here are the cases which I mentioned at today’s conference. What a great turn out (130+ lawyers, appraisers, right-of-way professionals, and others).
Many thanks to colleagues Chris Kramer and Jennifer Cranston for
Surge pricing applies!
You really have to feel for taxi operators who invested what could be huge amounts of money to obtain a taxi medallion getting whacked by the competition from ridesharing outfits like Lyft and Uber. These services look and feel an awful lot like taxis, don’t they? As we wrote in a recent
Here’s one we’ve been waiting to drop, but when it did, we were tied up so couldn’t get to it quickly.
Yes, it’s a patent case. But as we explained here, a case that property mavens should be following because it deals with what is “property,” and where an owner goes to resolve