42 U.S.C. § 1983 | Civil Rights

Check this out. In Willowbrook Apts, LLC v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, No. 1:20-cv-01818 (July 6, 2020), the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland denied the plaintiff/property owner’s motion for a temporary restraining order, in a case challenging the COVID orders that pretty dramatically alter the landlord/tenant relationship in Maryland:

As expected, a quick decision and opinion from the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, after yesterday’s hearing on the plaintiff’s request for extraordinary preliminary relief (a TRO and PI) in the case challenging the Hawaii Governor’s imposition of a 14-day self-quarantine on all travelers inbound to Hawaii (and other emergency orders, although

As we noted here, property owners sued the New York governor asserting that one of his emergency measures to respond to the coronavirus crisis (a suspension of eviction proceedings) is a taking.

Yesterday, the District Court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment, and entered summary judgment in favor of the governor. Order Denying


Here’s the recording of last month’s Federalist Society’s Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group teleforum, “Just Compensation: A Suggestion or a Requirement?

Can states unilaterally decide not to pay takings judgments? Some states think so. Louisiana and Florida have laws that say no takings

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The Supreme Court today declined to review a Tenth Circuit decision that held a municipality could not be liable for a taking when its police officers pretty much destroyed a house in the course of dislodging a suspect who had holed up there. 

Along with our colleague Bill DeVinney, we filed an amicus brief in

We’ve posted a lot of complaints lately (the lawsuit kind, not the “can I see the manager” kind), mostly coronavirus-related. All involving in one way or another a takings claim. See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and

Note: please join us today, Tuesday, June, 23, 2020 (12 noon Hawaii Time) for a (free!) webinar. We’ll analyze the latest on “Lockdowns, testing and tracking: Are they all really legal?

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There have been quite a few lawsuits filed nationwide challenging the various shut-down and “essential”/”nonessential” distinctions being made. So many

Here’s the recording of last week’s program we did for the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, “Constitutional Law and States of Emergency: Lessons from Hawaii’s Judicial History for the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

Links to the cases and other materials we referred to in the presentation are posted here.

Tomorrow, we’ll be joining