Where is this? The clues are all in the picture.
You’ve seen the citation so many times, your eyes probably gloss over it. After all, Westlaw lists it with 4,507 “Citing References.” That’s a heckuva lot of citations to a single case.
Like this one, pulled from a recent random federal district court opinion:
And
We were all set to take a deeper dive into the Court of Federal Claims’s recent opinion in the “downstream” Harvey flooding cases (we could not do so at the time the opinion was issued last week because we were tied up doing real lawyer stuff), when our Reno, Nevada colleague Steve Silva (who most
They’re coming so fast, we can hardly keep up.
Today, in Castillo v. United States, No. 19-1158 (Feb. 20, 2020), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit resolved a common issue in rails-to-trails takings cases: when a property owner holds title and her deed describes the land as bordering on a
Check out the latest (and final) episode of the Institute for Justice’s “Bound by Oath” podcast. IJ’s John K. Ross was kind enough to ask us to be a guest on the show titled “Excessive Fines,” and our friend and colleague Bob McNamara and I sat down in Nashville to record our
Here’s the latest in a long-running, multi-forum takings case about the development of affordable housing on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Last we saw, the District Court awarded nominal compensation ($1), after the jury concluded that the State of Hawaii took Aina Lea’s property. The parties cross-appealed: the State argues the district court should have
We’re doing lawyer things this week, so can’t do much blogging, so we’re going to just leave this here, the Court of Federal Claims’s Opinion and Order in the case seeking compensation for a taking by the “downstream” owners whose lands were flooded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the aftermath of Hurricane
It’s Friday (and Valentine’s Day), so we’ll make this quick, even thought this is one of those cases with a fact pattern that you just can’t digest quickly: In Day v. Idaho DOT, No. 45552 (Feb. 14, 2020), the Supreme Court of Idaho held that only the property owners at the time of the
Each of the three big presentation rooms was full at our recent ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Nashville. Nearly 300 lawyers, judges, appraisers, professors, students, relocation experts, and others eminent domain professionals coming together for 3 days of programming and fellowship. I have uploaded all of the photos that I took
A group of property owners acquired several parcels in the Windsor, Ontario (Canada) area over the years, “with the aim of developing the lots for residential purposes.”
The city had other ideas: it wanted the area for a “natural heritage area known as the Spring Garden Complex.” The property owners believed they were entitled
Check out these two amici briefs, just filed in a case we’ve been following, about what a property owner who is awarded just compensation in a state court eminent domain lawsuit is supposed to do if the local government that is ordered to pay the just compensation judgment … doesn’t.
The property owner sued
