We’re on the road early tomorrow for another visit to SCOTUS with our William and Mary Law School class. We hope to get in for the arguments in the Maui Clean Water Act case. Last year, we attended the first Knick arguments in October, and we wanted to repeat the experience for this year’s
November 2019
Connecticut: “Hardship” For Variances Means Inverse Condemnation
By Robert H. Thomas on
We think the Connecticut Supreme Court’s opinion in Mayer-Whitman v. Zoning Board of Appeals, No. SC 19972 (Nov. 5, 2019) is worth a read, even if it does not break new ground, because it does a good job of explaining some basic principles.
Quick story: Breunich had a house. It didn’t conform to height…
Register Now! ALI-CLE Eminent Domain And Land Valuation Litigation Conference (Nashville, Jan 23-25, 2020)
By Robert H. Thomas on
Posted in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 | Civil Rights, Administrative law, Appellate law, Attorneys Fees & Costs, Court of Federal Claims | Federal Circuit, Due process, Eminent Domain | Condemnation, Environmental law, Events | Conferences, Inverse condemnation, Just Compensation | Appraisal, Municipal & Local Govt law, Nollan/Dolan | Exactions, Penn Central, Pipelines, Property rights, Public Use | Kelo, Rail, Rails-to-Trails, Redevelopment, Regulatory takings, Relocation | URA, Rent Control, Ripeness | Knick, Wildfires | Flooding
Registration underway, so come join us! Agenda full of hot topics in takings and appraisal law! The best national faculty! Renew friendships, and make new colleagues! And Nashville!
Download the brochure and make your plans for January. (Don’t wait, we’ve sold out the past three years.)
A Permanent Memorial To Romaine Tenney, Vermont Eminent Domain Victim
By Robert H. Thomas on
Posted in Eminent Domain | Condemnation, Property rights
Dad was from upstate New York. More correctly, a town literally in both New York and Vermont (the state line runs right through the middle of the burg). His mother’s family were old time rural Vermonters, and he shared many of the stereotypical traits of his people – solid, self-reliant, taciturn. Many questions answered solely…