At the recent ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Nashville, our colleagues, New York’s Jon Houghton and Hawaii’s Dave Day presented a very informative program on litigating regulatory takings cases. Jon is a property owner-side lawyer, while Dave is a Deputy Attorney General who represents the State of Hawaii in such
We just completed a fun hour-long talk with the students in the William and Mary Law School’s American Constitution Society, the Native American Law Society, and the Society on Environmental and Animal Law about the various pipeline cases that are ongoing nationwide. (If our tech worked, we shall post the audio recording in a future
Update: here’s a report (video included!) about our spring “field trip” to what arguably is the birthplace of a “more perfect union” (which just happens to be right down the road from William and Mary Law School).
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This semester, we’re teaching a short course at William and Mary Law School (and yes, thanks to
The last two cert-stage briefs have been filed in a case we’ve been following for a while (since it was decided by the Colorado Court of Appeals).
In Carousel Farms Metro. Dist. v. Woodcrest Homes, Inc., 444 P.3d 802 (Colo. App. 2017), the appeals court invalidated an attempt to exercise eminent domain to
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
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
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
As we briefly noted in this post, before we departed the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Nashville, we just had to stop by the subdivision that was at issue in the Williamson County litigation.
Frankly, there’s nothing especially special or noteworthy about this place, and only takings nerds will truly
