We listened live last week, but the court has now made the recording available in Johnson v. City of Suffolk.
This is what we call the “oyster takings” case in which Nansemond River oystermen claim that their property was taken when the City of Suffolk and the Sanitation District dumped sewage into the
The docket is pretty crowded today, so we don’t have that much time to digest and summarize the Nebraska Supreme Court’s opinion in Douglas County School Dist. No. 10 v. Tribedo, LLC, No. S-19-986 (Nov. 6, 2020). But we recommend you read it (or at least scan it).
Short story: Tribedo got the better
Join us next Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 3pm ET (12 noon Pacific) for the free webinar “Shutdowns, Closures, Moratoria, and Bans,” produced by Pacific Legal Foundation and Owners’ Counsel of America.
Along with my colleagues Leslie Fields (Executive Director, OCA), and Jim Burling (PLF), I’ll be talking about the legal foundations for
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Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following even before its inception (last semester, our William and Mary class visited the site and witnessed the oyster operation affected – see video above), Johnson v. City of Suffolk.
This morning, the Virginia Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case, and we livestreamed it
This semester, we’re teaching two courses at the William and Mary Law School: the usual Eminent Domain & Property Rights (our regularly-scheduled fall semester course), and Land Use. If we were to try and create a hypothetical for the final exam in either class, we couldn’t do better than the actual fact pattern and arguments
John Pinder was a bad dude. He “was convicted on eleven felony counts in connection with the murders” of two people. State v. Pinder, 114 P.3d 551 (Utah 2005). His mom and dad were not accused, but their property was seized by the state as part of its investigation of their son, and although
In case you missed any part of it: the recordings of the recent 2020 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference are now available.
Go here for the descriptions of the panels, speakers, and links to the recorded sessions.
This year’s conference, held on October 1-2, opened with the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize being awarded to Professor
After Knick knocked out the “state procedures” requirement of the Williamson County ripeness doctrine, we predicted that owners’ lawyers better dust off their Federal Courts treatises that have been sitting on our bookshelves for the last three decades.
We said that because we suspected the game was still afoot, and Knick alone would not overcome
Admire the enviable record of success of Pacific Legal Foundation (you know, the folks who brought us Nollan, Palazzolo, Sackett, Knick, and a bunch of other great cases)? Always dreamed about joining them?
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