You know the deal: property owner is sued by government to condemn her land. The owner believes that action doesn’t cover all of the property or interests that the government is actually taking. What to do next? Counterclaim in the eminent domain action, or separate inverse case?
There’s no one answer, and different jurisdictions have
No better way to start 2026 than to check out the Yale Journal of Regulation‘s (the self-labeled “Nation’s Top-Ranked Administrative and Corporate Law Journal”), for its symposium on the twentieth anniversary of the Kelo case.
Featuring authors who readers of this blog will recognize (all the big names), the symposium features articles you
Here’s the latest in an issue we’ve been following.
In Alban v. United States, No. 23-1363 (Dec. 22, 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Court of Federal Claims’s judgment concluding that the failure of the Corps of Engineers to properly operate two dams, which resulted in upstream
William and Mary Law School’s Property Rights Project has announced that Professor James E. Penner (Kwa Geok Choo Professor of Property Law at the National University of Singapore) will be awarded the 2026 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize.
This is in keeping with the international theme in the 2026 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, which will
We start off 2026 with some good news: after a short hiatus (explained in the episode), Bobby Debelak’s Eminent Domain Podcast is back with Episode 150: “Year in Review and ALI-CLE Preview.”
And we get to join him!
Here’s how Bobby describes the episode:
Bobby returns to the podcast after a brief
We start off 2026 with some good news: after a short hiatus (explained in the episode), Bobby Debelak’s Eminent Domain Podcast is back with Episode 150: “Year in Review and ALI-CLE Preview.”
And we get to join him!
Here’s how Bobby describes the episode:
Bobby returns to the podcast after a brief
In an earlier post, we covered the highlights of 2025.
There are quite a lot to choose from, but here’s our curated list of the year’s lowlights. As in our highlight list, we’re affirmatively omitting cases in which we had a hand.
Here we go:
Cert Denial of the Year: GHP
It is time to bid farewell to the Year 2025, and our mind wanders back over the last 364 days in an attempt to ascribe meaning, a theme — a vibe — to the year that was.
Scientists tell us that this is just another trip around the Sun, but we humans like to
This one is worth your time to review.
In HRT Enterprises v. City of Detroit, No. 23-1847 (Dec. 22, 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the district court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff/owner and a jury verdict on just compensation.
The case is notable not
But seriously, have a very happy and restful holiday.
– Your friends at inversecondemnation.com