Here’s the latest foray into the judicial takings arena. In this cert petition, a beverage distributor asserts that the Connecticut Supreme Court’s decision altering established property rights in unclaimed refund values in bottles resulted in a taking.
Here are the Questions Presented:
For nearly 30 years, Connecticut beverage distributors had established property rights in socalled
Check this out. In Patel v. City of Los Angeles, No. 08-56567 (Dec. 24, 2013), the en banc Ninth Circuit concluded that a city ordinance which requires hotel owners to open guest records for inspection to the LAPD without a warrant constitutes a “search,” and that doing so is a facial violation of the
Civil pro wonks, get ready: we all know that under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, states are required to give the judgments of another state the same respect that those judgments would receive in the courts of the other state. That principle remains the same whether the judgment is issued by a state
Here’s the latest brief in the Democratic Party’s federal court challenge to Hawaii’s “open primary” system (the Party’s reply brief, which both is its final word supporting its motion for summary judgment, and its response to the State of Hawaii’s counter-motion for summary judgment).
This brief responds to the State’s argument that
Here’s some news: the State of Hawaii thinks that Hawaii has a “vibrant multi-party system.”
Really?
The reality, of course, is not only different, it is much different, as a summary of the situation by Honolulu Civil Beat (“One-Party Dominance“) points out. An overwhelmingly Democratic congressional delegation, a nearly one-party legislature, only one
Here’s the Complaint, filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Honolulu in which a windward Oahu property owner challenges the City and County of Honolulu’s removal of her protest signs on her property.
The rub? She’s protesting the City’s condemnation of her property back in 2010. Her complaint alleges that the city “neither owns
Here is a deeper look at the two lawsuits filed lastweek in U.S. District Court in San Francisco against the City ofRichmond, California, for the city’s Mortgage Resolution Partners-backed plan to condemn underwater mortgages, specifically those held by out-of-state securitizedbonds, residential mortgage-backed securitization (RMBS) trusts. The first Complaint was brought by Wells Fargo and a
What’s this, a federal court actually allowing a federal Fifth Amendment claim to be litigated in federal court? Why that’s as rare as hen’s teeth, although it shouldn’t be.
That’s the ruling of the Fourth Circuit in Sansotta v. Town of Nags Head, No. 12-1538 (July 25, 2013), which reversed the district
More about Horne v. USDA. More here, from Reason (who produced the video).
Here’s the Complaint in the case mentioned.
It’s easy to report when you win a case, not so easy when you … don’t (at least not yet).
That’s the result in this stage of the Hawaii reapportionment case, as yesterday, a three-judge U.S. District Court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and entered summary judgment for the state defendants. We
