Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following.
Now before you get all worked up about the Texas Supreme Court agreeing that the private company proposing to build a bullet train between Dallas and Houston may exercise the sovereign power of eminent domain (see Miles v. Texas Central RR & Infrastructure, Inc.
The owners of the Hollymead Town Center (Route 29, LLC) located, perhaps not surprisingly along U.S. Route 29 in Albemarle County outside of Charlottesville, needed the County to rezone a portion of the property.
Part of the rezone was something called a “conditional proffer” that required a cash donation of $50,000 “[w]ithin thirty days after
A long-ish opinion from the Alabama Supreme Court in Douglas v. Roper, No. 1200503 (June 24, 2022). But a short post because the good stuff is relatively brief.
Bottom line: property owners have a vested interest in excess money generated from a tax sale of their property, and the Alabama legislature cannot prohibit the
In Haggart v. United States, No. 21-1660 (June 22, 2022), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the Uniform Relocation Act is like a lot of other fee-shifting statutes, and does not authorize attorneys fees for work performed by a lawyer if that lawyer is one of the litigants. Slip
In honor of property rights advocate and trial lawyer Toby Prince Brigham (1934-2021), Owners’ Counsel of America has endowed a scholarship for a second- or third- year law student to attend the annual three-day ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference (the upcoming Conference will be in Austin, Texas, February 2-4, 2023.
In honor
Here’s the latest – a cert petition in a case (and an issue) we’ve been following that asks can a government action that is a violation of copyright also be a taking?
Bynum wrote, researched, and edited a book, a biography of Texas A & M’s famed “12th Man” of the football squad.
Here’s what we’re reading today:
807 years ago today on a grassy plain down by the river, the barons convinced bad King John to affix his seal to Magna Carta. And boy was that guy bad even by the standards of medieval royals: when you type “bad king…” in your search engine, the first suggested search is
Worth checking out: Christopher Serkin, What Property Does, 75 Vand. L. Rev. 891 (2022).
Covering (inter alia) property, rule against perpetuities, adverse possession, Lucas background principles, judicial and regulatory takings, Mahon v. Keystone Bituminous, and vested rights and amortization of preexisting uses.
Here’s the abstract:
For centuries, scholars have wrestled with
We’ve been meaning to post the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s opinion in Barber v. Charter Twp of Springfield, No. 20-2298 (Apr. 11, 2022) for a while because it emphasizes an important point about “final decision” ripeness, and the sometimes ridiculous arguments made to support an argument that a takings claim