Every year at this time, it seems, we realize once again that as you get older, you overlook birthdays. Time speeds up, or maybe slows down. Very Proustian.
Thus, it occurred to us only yesterday that that this blog’s “birthday” was looming and we almost let it slip by without notice.
It hardly seems
Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s opinion in Garza v. Woods, No. 24-1064 (Aug. 25, 2025).
The court concluded that Arizona’s abandoned property statute is not a taking, because the State was not exercising or claiming some kind of ownership of abandoned property (as in those cases where abandoned
Here’s one from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, involving ERISA (yikes!), which is the comprehensive federal regulatory framework for employer-provided pension plans, and takings.
In King v. United States, No. 23-1956 (Aug. 8, 2025), pensioners challenged Congress’s 2014 reduction of benefits as a taking, alleging both physical and regulatory theories.
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following which presents an important issue. So much so that we filed an amicus brief in support of the property owner.
In Town of Apex v. Rubin, No. 206PAA21 (Aug. 22, 2025), the North Carolina Supreme Court held that if a taking is determined to be
As you already know, registration is also underway for the 22d Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, October 23-24, 2025, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.
The Conference is expressly designed to get legal academics and the nation’s best dirt law practitioners in the same room, discussing how legal scholarship and law
If your brain goes full mobius strip when trying to figure out the California Court of Appeal’s rationale in Anaheim Mobile Estates, LLC v. State of California, No. G063421 (Aug. 13, 2025), you are not alone.
Here’s the bottom line in this facial challenge to a California statute that limits mobilehome parks located
That’s it. That’s the post.
Feels like a milestone, although we’re not quite sure of what. Well, longevity if nothing else.
Yes, there have been repeat posts. Guest posts. Random missives that are interesting to us, even if they don’t say a whole lot about our usual topics.
But we’ve been doing this
“A brighter tomorrow is only a day away.”
So held the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in an important case, DM Arbor Court, Ltd. v. City of Houston, No. 23-20385 (Aug. 12, 2025).
The issue was whether the City of Houston’s denial of a rebuilding permit after a flood was a
Here’s a recent cert petition which asks the Supreme Court to take up the case of a small property owner in West Hollywood, California, whose case was dismissed when he asked “[h]ow far can a city expand rent control to advance general socioeconomic policies before crossing constitutional property protections?” Pet. at 3.
Here are the