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Get ready, and hold your place now: here’s the list of programs and speakers for the 36th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, to be held at the Downtown Nashville Hilton, January 23,- 25, 2020. Two-and-a-half days with top-notch national
We’re posting the Indiana Court of Appeals’ recent opinion in Hoagland Family Ltd. P’ship v. Town of Clear Lake, No. 18A-PL-2088 (Aug. 28, 2019) not because it says much about eminent domain law, but more because (1) we commented on the case last time it was before the court, and (2) it’s kind
Coke – he’s the real thing.*
One of the great things about teaching at the William and Mary Law School (and there are many) is that it houses the original law book collection of George Wythe, “the first American law professor.” He is the O.G. Lawprof, both at W&M, and in the United States
Here are the final briefs in the cert process in a case we’ve been following.
In In Guerin v. Fowler, 899 F.3d 1112 (9th Cir. 2018), a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit held that Washington state officials’ failure to return daily interest that was allegedly skimmed from the plaintiffs’ state-managed retirement accounts could
Every year at this time, it seems, we’re realizing again that as you get older, you forget birthdays. Thus, it only occurred to us only over this past weekend that that this blog’s “birthday” passed without notice.
It hardly seems like thirteen years ago that we posted here for the first time. In law
We sometimes assume that everyone gets that the point of an eminent domain valuation trial is to try to establish the price the real-world market of buyers and sellers would have arrived on for the property being taken had the transaction been voluntary. We know it is all hypothetical because this market didn’t actually exist
A very short (3 pages) opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a takings case. In Bay Point Properties, Inc. v. Mississippi Trans. Comm’n, No. 18-60674 (Aug. 27, 2019), the court somewhat cryptically concluded that a property owner who asserted that it was not fully compensated in state court
For many years, a tenant had a month-to-month lease from Baltimore for a space in one of the city’s public markets. One day, the market sent the tenant an email informing it that it no longer “fit in the [redevelopment] plans,” and that it should “pursue other options.” The tenant took that as “get
Today, we’re featuring a post written by our Tennessee colleague, economist William Wade. He writes about the Massachusetts Court of Appeals’ recent decision in Smyth v. Conservation Comm’n of Falmouth, and the more recent cert petition in that case. Bill writes and comments frequently on takings cases. See, e.g., William W.
Here’s an interesting twist on the process which, in some states, recognizes the ability of one private owner to condemn the property of a neighbor. Most often this arises when a landlocked parcel exercises eminent domain to take the property of a neighbor for access.
It always struck us a little odd that the sovereign