April 2020

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Lacking things to read during your shut-down? Well, we have the solution: the Fordham Urban Law Journal has devoted an entire issue to Knick and takings ripeness (“Taking Account: Procedure, Substance, and Stare Decisis in the Post-Knick World“). 

Our article “Sublimating Municipal Home Rule and Separation of Powers in Knick v.

In a case that uses terms that might reasonably lead you to think it was lifted from the script for the next stoner comedy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Gadsden Indus. Park, LLC v. United States, No. 18-2132 (Apr. 22, 2020), held that an owner of land on

Here’s the latest complaint challenging a governmental business shut-down order. In this case, it is an order by the Michigan governor. We’ve seen similar lawsuits recently (see here, here and here, for example). So far, these complaints have have not met with receptive audiences. This one was tossed aside quickly. This one

Unlike a sibling federal court in a similar case (see that court’s TRO order below), a Florida court has declined an emergency motion challenging government officials’ coronavirus-related shut-down and stay away orders.

This is the case we’ve been following in which property owners challenge the local government’s order that they stay off beaches. The difference

This morning, the Supreme Court of Virginia heard oral arguments (by telephone) in a case we’ve been following.

This is an inverse case that asks whether less than a total loss of access to a parcel could be taking — did the owner plead enough to put the issue to a jury — and

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Today, along with our colleague Bill DeVinney, we filed this amicus brief in support of the property owners’ cert petition in a case we’ve been following for a while. 

Yes, this is the case where the Village police pretty much destroyed a family home in the course of their efforts to dislodge a shoplifter who