June 2024

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Mark your calendars and register now for the upcoming American Law Institute-CLE webinar “Property Rights and Regulatory Takings at the Supreme Court.” The focus of this program is a summary and analysis (including “what’s next?”) of the two big property and eminent domain cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, Sheetz (exactions), and

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Disclosure: this one is one of ours, so we’re not going to do a deep dive or do much commentary (must resist!).

Yesterday, the California Supreme Court granted a Los Osos property owner’s petition, and agreed to review an (unpublished) Court of Appeal opinion which held that the California Coastal Commission has

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

Our friends at the Institute for Justice have filed this cert petition asking the Supreme Court to take up the case where a New York town eminent domained the Brinkmann property for a public park.

What’s wrong with that, you ask…isn’t a public park a

This one is about Robert Moses. Yeah, that guy. You may think you know the story, but even if you do, it will be worth your time to listen to this episode of Dave and Kristen’s Infrastructure Junkies podcast. You will probably learn something new like me.

Here’s the pod’s description of the episode:

Games people play
Night or day they’re just not matchin’
What they should do
Keeps me feelin’ blue
Been down too long
Right, wrong, I just can’t stop it

This one isn’t about takings, but is nonetheless a must-read.

In Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc. v. Carvalho, No. 22-55908 (June 7, 2024), a panel

This is a must-listen, the latest episode of John Ross’s Bound by Oath podcast. This season is covering property rights, and this episode details Berman v. Parker, which may be the first case in what we’ll call the “modern era” where the Supreme Court set the judicial hands-off tone for public use challenges.

The

Here are three federal circuit opinions, all unpublished. None of them worthy of a stand-alone post, but also not to be overlooked entirely.

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Here’s the abstract:

Employment at will is legally and politically entrenched. It is the default termination law in forty-nine states and controls the working lives of most U.S. workers, creating a political economy of precarity and exploitation. In light of these challenges, this Essay offers a novel framework for a constitutional challenge to the at-will