Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals’ opinion in Andrews v. Mentor, No. 20-4030 (Aug. 25, 2021).
Property owners sought rezoning of their land from R-4 to “Village Green – RVG,” a higher density zone, so that the owners could build single-family homes. Under R-4, the maximum number of homes was 13 and had
On one hand, the U.S. Court of Appeals’ opinion in Buending v. Town of Redington Beach, No. 20-11354 (Aug. 20, 2021) is not a big deal, at least in terms of the issue in the case: did the Town take the plaintiffs’ private beach property when it adopted an ordinance allowing the public to
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Yes, it’s that time of the year again. Fall’s-a-coming, and that means that soon, we’ll be back at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia to lead two courses:
Unlike last year, we’re not going to be on Zoom, or in the Tennis Center, or
Here’s what we’re reading today, a recently-published law review article by Brendan Mackesey, The Dawn of a Judicial Takings Doctrine: Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 75 U. Miami L. Rev. 798 (2021).
Here’s the Abstract:
In Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 130
There’s not a whole lot in the U.S. Supreme Court’s order granting an injunction on appeal that suspends application of a part of New York State’s eviction moratorium until such time as a cert petition is filed. The claims in that case are due process claims regarding the deprivation of a hearing, not takings.
But
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The hits keep coming. There have already been complaints alleging takings against the feds for the CDC eviction moratorium, and against the State of California for its moratorium.
Now this, a complaint against the City of Angels alleging that its version of the moratorium works a taking, either a per se physical invasion taking, a
Here’s what we’re reading today. And this is one of those articles that you should not miss.
Our W&M colleague Katherine Mims Crocker has published “Reconsidering Section 1983’s Nonabrogation of Sovereign Immunity,” 73 Fla. L. Rev. 523 (2021).
Why is this a “must read” you ask? Because Professor Crocker concludes, “[t]he preceding Parts