We’re at the ABA Midyear meeting in sunny Chicago, so we have our to-read links posted today instead of a new case digest. Our fingers are too frozen to post anything more:
- Kelo Revisited: Properties were seized and a neighborhood razed in the name of ‘economic development’ that never came (from the Weekly Standard).
- Lawprof Ilya Somin’s thoughts on the above story, via Volokh/WashPo.
- In Hawaii Talk, Scalia Again Raises Concerns About Court Ruling On Spying Issues (via Honolulu Civil Beat/Huffington Post Hawaii).
- No well. No way (from The Garden Island, Kauai’s daily newspaper, a story that just sums up how some decisions get made in one little corner of paradise).
- Are you in New York City today? Good chance to attend NYU Law’s Milbank Tweed Forum on “Mortgage Relief or Bank Robbery? An Eminent Domain Showdown” (with Professors Vicki Been and Robert Hockett, journalist Matt Levine, and the “Chief Strategy Officer” of the driving force behind the idea, Mortgage Resolution Partners).
- Road Worrier: A year after grabbing land from bankrupt owner, NCDOT seeks permission (via the Charlotte (NC) News Observer, a story that reminds us that bad things happen when a state agency does things like ignore the automatic stay in bankruptcy by condeming property).