We’re seeing a lot of “end of year” and “end of decade” wrap-ups, so figured we’d better chime in.
As the above graphic hints (this is detail of the doors of the U.S. Supreme Court), our biggest case of 2019 (and probably of the twenty-aughts) is Knick v. Township of Scott
Here’s the video of our October panel at the 2019 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights conference during which we spoke about “The New New Property: Public Resources and Private Rights.”
Our panel also discussed judicial takings, Stop the Beach, (a case in which speaker Ken Bell — then a Justice on the Florida Supreme
If you get this, you need to attend the 37th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 23-25, 2020, in Nashville.
And if you don’t get this, you need to attend more.
Here’s the Complaint filed earlier this month in an Indiana federal court, which alleges that the State of Indiana is liable for a judicial taking in a case we’ve been following. Yes, a judicial taking!
You recall that in Gunderson v. Indiana, 90 N.E.3d 171 (Ind. 2018), the Indiana Supreme Court concluded that the
An inversecondemnation.com holiday tradition, updated.
We’ve been meaning to post the Texas Court of Appeals’ opinion in Zaatari v. City of Austin, No. 03-17-00812 (Nov. 27, 2019) for some time.
The City of Austin adopted an ordinance that, among other things, prohibited short term rental of a residence that is not also owner-occupied, barred certain activities (such as weddings)
Reading through the Alabama Supreme Court’s recitation of the facts in a case about inverse condemnation, City of Daphne v. Fannon, No. 1180109 (Dec. 6, 2019), you can’t help but be reminded of the convoluted chain of events in that old warhorse tort case, Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R., 162 N.E. 99 (N.Y.
Here’s the cert petition, filed today (by the same folks who brought you Knick v. Township of Scott, 139 S. Ct. 393 (1922)), which poses this straightforward question:
Whether the “self-executing” Just Compensation Clause abrogates a State’s Eleventh Amendment immunity, allowing a property owner to sue the State for a taking of property.
Here are some of the stories and analysis about yesterday’s ruling by the Court of Federal Claims holding the federal government liable for a taking for the flooding following Hurricane Harvey in the Houston area: