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Pacific Legal Foundation requesting applications for positions as a Property Rights Constitutional Litigator. Job description includes “You will find and win the next important Supreme Court property rights case.”
The hits keep coming. There have already been complaints alleging takings against the feds for the CDC eviction moratorium, and against the State of California for its moratorium.
Now this, a complaint against the City of Angels alleging that its version of the moratorium works a taking, either a per se physical invasion taking, a
Here’s what we’re reading today. And this is one of those articles that you should not miss.
Our W&M colleague Katherine Mims Crocker has published “Reconsidering Section 1983’s Nonabrogation of Sovereign Immunity,” 73 Fla. L. Rev. 523 (2021).
Why is this a “must read” you ask? Because Professor Crocker concludes, “[t]he preceding Parts
According to that trustworthy source Wikipedia, in drama, the term deus ex machina (“God from the machine”) “is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence. Its function is generally to resolve an otherwise irresolvable plot situation, to surprise the
We’re not entirely sure if this is “for real” or just an elaborate tongue-in-cheek spoof, but hey, there’s a website (“Give No Quarter!” and an invitation to “Become a Third Amendment lawyer”), a blog (“The Runt Piglet Squeals!”*), and the brief seems signed by an honest-to-goodness real lawyer and sure looks like it has a
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We’ve had our say, so in this post — the sixth and final post in a series of deeper dives about June’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid , No. 20-107 (June 23, 2021) — we’re linking to what others are saying about the case.
Here are all
In this post — the fifth and penultimate post 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 trying to take some educated guesses about what the decision means for the future.
Here are
What do you think about these facts in RLR Investments, LLC v. City of Pigeon Forge, No. 20-6375 (July 13, 2021), a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on what we might charitably call an obscure legal doctrine (Rooker–Feldman)?
City wanted some of RLR’s