November 2023

Screenshot 2023-11-16 at 15-28-57 About SCOTUS Ladies

Although the Dissed! podcast is no more, our colleagues Elizabeth Slattery (PLF) and Anastasia Boden (Cato) have thankfully redirected their efforts to the written form, a new law blog (how retro!).

As the title (“SCOTUS Ladies“) hints, their blog focuses on the doings of a certain court in Washington, DC. Here’s how they

Here’s the merits brief in a case we’ve been following (naturally, because it is one of ours). This is Sheetz v. El Dorado County, the case which asks whether a condition on development (aka an “exaction”) is exempt from the close nexus and rough proportionality standards of Nollan/Dolan/Koontz simply because the exaction is imposed

Erasing the Black Spot from WHRO on Vimeo.

As we first noted here, Hampton University and WHRO recently produced a live program on “Erasing the Black Spot – How Virginia Universities Have Disrupted Black Neighborhoods.” We couldn’t make it in person, but watched the live-stream.

Now, as we hoped, the recorded

Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following.

Not that long ago, the Ninth Circuit held that a challenge to Washington state’s Co-19 eviction moratorium was moot because the moratorium had ended, and the plaintiffs had only sought declaratory relief. Thus, the court concluded, the moratorium did not have a “brooding presence” affecting

We don’t often post trial court orders — especially state trial court orders — but read on and you will understand why we made an exception here. Our thanks to an Oregon colleague for sending it our way.

Today’s case involves a pretty typical situation — a condemnor (or, “condemner” — for it is in

Another must-listen episode of Clint’s Eminent Domain Podcast. He’s joined by Pepperdine Law School Professor Shelley Ross Saxer:

Professor Shelley Ross Saxer joins the show to discuss the role that the damaging clauses found in more than half of state constitutions across the United States play in inverse condemnation claims related to natural disasters

ALI-CLE brochure cover page

Here’s the brochure and the full agenda and registration information for the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference at the JW Marriott in New Orleans, February 1-3, 2024.

This is the long-running nationally-focused conference on all things eminent domain, takings, valuation, and related. We have three tracks, from which you can

Here’s a takings cert petition, filed yesterday.

Because this is one of ours, we’re not going to comment much beyond reposting the Question Presented, and to let you know this one is about how the “relatively modest” requirement that the government have taken some “definitive position” about what uses are allowed and what uses