A short one from the Ohio Court of Appeals.
In City of North Canton v. Brown, No. 2024-CA00030 (Dec. 16, 2024), the court held the trial court in a just compensation action wrongly excluded the owner’s evidence of the County’s property tax valuation.
Hang on. Doesn’t the owner usually want to exclude evidence of
A short one today, but worth reading because the Kentucky Supreme Court’s opinion in Kentucky Transportation Cabinet v. Atkins, No.2023-SC-0173 (Dec. 19, 2024) highlights an important point: when offering evidence of the compensation owed for the taking of income-producing property–and “[d]etermining the value of condemned real property is not a science”– it isn’t “speculative”
The latest edition of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal (William & Mary Law School) is out, with intriguing Dirt Law scholarship from the luminaries in the field.
Check out the Table of Contents above, and then go here to download each piece or the entire issue. We will note, with a small bit of pride
In what might be the most cliched “New York City” land use situation, check out the Appellate Division’s opinion in Coalition For Fairness v. City of New York, No. 2023-05338 (Dec. 5, 2024).
Want to convert your SoHo-NoHo artist live/work space to unlimited residential use? Be prepared to pony up and pay to the
Strong letter to follow!
A long-ish read (32 single-spaced pages) from the Federal Circuit in City of Fresno v. United States, No. 22-1994 (Dec. 17, 2024), but worth reading.
Not only will you get a crash course in how water is allocated in California’s vast central valley (as the billboards above, set up along
Our colleagues at the Institute for Justice–the same firm that represented Susette Kelo in her oh-so-close run at clearing up the Public Use requirement in eminent domain, today filed this cert petition in which they take another run. We will let you savor the wine and find out about the case and the arguments by
We tend to avoid cases about insurance. Not because they are dull (as you might wrongly imagine). Indeed, there’s more excitement in insurance cases than you’d guess. But insurance law and the insurance regulation field needs a certain level of very niche expertise that we don’t possess. So normally, we would not have given the
Too busy writing those briefs and petitioning for those writs, so haven’t found the time to hit your local store or the interwebs and fulfill your seasonal duties? Or maybe you just have gifter’s block about an appropriate present for the dirt lawyer in your life this holiday season?
You could go the last-minute route:
Check out the opinion of the Court of Federal Claims in Nix v. United States, No. 23-704C (Dec. 11, 2024). Fascinating stuff.
We post it here not because it breaks new ground, but due to the subject matter of the lawsuit: the alleged taking of a film that captures (in part) the assassination of
Our thanks to Bobby Debelak for having us back on as a guest on his Eminent Domain Podcast.
We’re long-time fans of the pod (naturally), and it was good to get together with Bobby and talk a bit of shop.
Here’s a description of our session:
Robert Thomas joins Bobby Debelak to discuss the
