We spoke on the second panel of the day at the 2022 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School. The subject of our panel — which included Professors David Callies, Tim Mulvaney, and Dave Owen — was “Reshaping the Framework Protecting Property Under the Roberts Court.“
Here’s a rough
We’re underway with the 19th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School. Here is 2022 B-K Prizewinner James Burling opening the presentations. More to follow as we make our way through the day’s programming.
The facts of the Connecticut Appellate Court’s opinion in Schaghticoke Tribal Nation v. Connecticut, No. AC 43811 (Sep. 27, 2022), really stand out.
Back in the day — and we mean waaaaay back in the day — as in 1801! — the State of Connecticut sold some land which in 1752 (!) the Colony
We were all set to write a deep and insightful takings analysis of the U.S. Court of Appeals’ recent opinion in Net Choice, LLC v. Paxton, No. 21-51178 (Sep. 16, 2022), a challenge by the major social media platforms to a Texas statute that limits the platforms’ ability to censor speech or “de-platform” (kick
Introduced on George Wythe’s steps.
One of the (many) great things about teaching and studying law at the William and Mary Law School is the location. A short walk from historic Williamsburg, the Law School (the nation’s first law school, by the way) is at the center of where some very important property
Coulda been worse.
When the Third Circuit’s published opinion in Yaw v. Delaware River Basin Comm’n, No. 21-2316 (Sep. 16, 2022) popped up in our feed we got a slight frisson in anticipation – a claim that the Commission’s banning of fracking was a taking.Thank you Knick for opening the federal courts
Clint Schumacher’s Eminent Domain podcast is one of those things that we almost shouldn’t post about. After all, every episode is worth your time. But this one is especially good. After all, it features our law firm colleague and friend Jon Houghton, discussing what you all know is one of our fave topics, regulatory
On the day we celebrate Constitution Day (or should we say Khaaaaan-stitution Day?) we have to admit that pretty much nothing beats One Named Kirk’s reading of the Preamble.
KIRK: This was not written for chiefs.Hear me! Hear this! Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands
One last reminder that there’ still time to register for the upcoming Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia, September 29-30, 2022. If you can’t make it to the historic campus, there’s an option to attend remotely.
In our opinion, the Conference is the best of its kind
A short one (unpublished) from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, considering an issue we’ve been following: what is the effect of the government’s claim that it is regulating property for what looks like a valid “police power” purpose?
As noted, that’s a road we’ve been down before. Here’s a sampling: