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In this post — the fourth in a series of deeper dives that we’re posting about June’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107 (June 23, 2021) — we’ll be discussing the two separate opinions, Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence, and the Justice Breyer-authored dissent.

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Our thanks to our friends and colleagues at the ABA Section of Real Property, Probate & Trust Section’s Land Use and Environmental Group for inviting us to a discussion of the latest and greatest decisions of interest.

We only had an hour together, so naturally could not cover everything of interest (indeed, we reserved a

In this post — the third in a series of deeper dives that we’ll be posting about last week’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107 (June 23, 2021) — we’ll be discussing whether the “right to exclude” is absolute, what exceptions the Court laid out, and how it

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Another day, another property rights decision from SCOTUS. This time, the unanimous per curiam opinion in a case we’ve been following, Pakdel v. City & County of San Francisco, No. 20-1212 (June 28, 2021).

[Disclosure: our PLF colleague Jeff McCoy is lead counsel on this case, and we pitched in with help on

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In this post — the second in a series of deeper dives that we’re posting about last week’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107 (June 23, 2021) — we’ll be covering more on the “right to exclude,” how the Court treated our old frenemy Pruneyard, and how

More good takings news, hot off the press.

Before Cedar Point came down last week, we were all set to let you know about the Eleventh Circuit’s opinion in South Grande View Dev. Co., Inc. v City of Alabaster, No. 18-14044 (June 21, 2021), in which the court affirmed a jury verdict that

In this post — the first in a series of deeper dives that we’ll be posting about over the next few days about yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107 (June 23, 2021) — we’ll be covering the background of the case, and the heart of the majority

Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s opinion in Harrison v. Montgomery County, No. 20-4-51 (May 11, 2021). It’s short, readable. And, most importantly, involves a subject that’s near and dear: takings, and the myriad potential traps that await an unsuspecting property owner making such a claim.

If you’ve ever

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This In Chambers Order recently issued by a federal district judge may just be the most unusual, flat-out wild judicial opinion we have ever read.

Citing the Gettysburg Address, Brown v. Board of Education, systemic racism (including eminent domain) systemic sexism, and a slew of newspaper articles, the Central District of California (without even

Here are links to the summaries and analysis of yesterday’s oral arguments in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107, the case asking whether California’s forbidding of agricultural property owners from keeping out union organizers is a taking:

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