Check this out, a quick read from our New Orleans colleague Randy Smith, his article from the current edition of the Louisiana Bar Journal, “Nailing Down Knick and Governmental Takings in Louisiana.“
Therein, he tells the story (inter alia) of Violet Dock Port (see here and here for two
We have looked through the entire judicial and scholarly oeuvre of SCOTUS nominee Judge Amy Barrett, who today is continuing to run the gauntlet of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Naturally, our scanners were searching for any of her decisions or writings that might give us some clue how a “Justice Barrett” might treat takings and
Although it is set to launch this Friday, October 2, 2020, there’s still more than enough time to register (and room at the inn) for you to join us for the 17th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School.
Like everything else this season, the Conference is online (
We’ve been meaning to write up the U.S. Court of Appeals’ decision in a case we’ve been following, Protect Our Parks, Inc v. Chicago Park District, No. 19-2308 (Aug. 231, 2020), but our Illinois colleague Mike Ryan was quicker on the draw.
Rather than summarize Mike’s write up, we simply suggest you go
As if to respond to a sibling federal court’s recent order upholding a covid-reaction shut down orders, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania’s opinion in County of Butler v. Wolf, No.2:20-cv-00677 (Sep. 14, 2020) reaches an entirely different conclusion:
The fact is that the lockdowns imposed across the United States
Please join us and a panel of expert speakers including our friend and colleague Tony Della Pelle (see the flyer for the complete list), this Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 1pm Eastern Time for the ABA-produced webinar “Governmental Emergency Powers and the Constitutional Implications Arising from Pandemic Orders.”
Free to ABA members,
News just in: we’ve just received confirmation that the Conference will not be in-person in Scottsdale in January 2021, and we’re going online.
Not a big surprise, but still a bit disappointing, and it’s a shame that the circumstances won’t allow us to meet in-person to talk shop and to renew our friendships like we
Can there be a more “Kentucky” thing than the Kentucky Derby? We can’t think of one. Today’s case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, West v. Kentucky Horse Racing Comm’n, No. 19-6333 (Aug. 28, 2020) is about the litigation stemming from the disqualification by the racing stewards of the “horse
A short while ago, we featured the cert petition in a case from the Big Island that we’ve been following as various pieces of it went up and down through both the state and federal court systems. See “New (Mike Berger) Cert Petition: ‘This case is the proverbial ‘Exhibit A’ of much that is
Property owners sued the State of Ohio Department of Transportation’s Director (in his official capacity) in federal court after ODOT’s highway project resulted in flooding of their land. They raised two claims: the first, a taking under the Fifth (and Fourteenth) Amendments, and the second a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The relief sought: