If you get this, you need to attend the 37th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 23-25, 2020, in Nashville.
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HAWSCT: When Agency Includes Conditions In Phase 1 Land Use Permit, But Later Removes The Conditions In Phase 2 Permit, Party Who Asked For Conditions Is Entitled To Notification
Here’s the latest opinion about land use from the Hawaii Supreme Court. Unite Here! Local 5 v. Dep’t of Planning & Permitting, No. SCAP-17-823 (Haw. Dec. 13, 2019). Because our Damon Key partner Greg Kugle was the prevailing lawyer in the case, we won’t go into detail about the opinion, but leave it
Shades Of Preseault In Big SCOTUS Superfund Arguments
We are noted for our ability to find takings and property issues nearly anywhere, and two cases argued today at the Supreme Court — where we had the pole position in the Bar line as the above photo proves — are no exception, even though the first was a case about a tax refund, and
Register Now! ALI-CLE Eminent Domain And Land Valuation Litigation Conference (Nashville, Jan 23-25, 2020)
Registration underway, so come join us! Agenda full of hot topics in takings and appraisal law! The best national faculty! Renew friendships, and make new colleagues! And Nashville!
Download the brochure and make your plans for January. (Don’t wait, we’ve sold out the past three years.)
Cal App: Agency Has Power To Adjudicate Whether The Agency Itself Is Taking Property (Really)
Update 10/25/2019: an astute and seasoned correspondent writes that the issue of whether a property owner must raise constitutional issues in the administrative proceedings was settled in a published opinion that involved the same agency, the California Coastal Commission. See Healing v. Cal. Coastal Comm’n (1994) 22 Cal. App. 4th 1158 (we put in in
What A Difference The Defendant Makes: The Federal Courts Finally Locate A Natural Gas Act Preliminary Injunction They Don’t Like
Today’s post is kind of long, but we think the opinion is well worth your time.
NGA Preliminary Injunctions
Regular readers know that we’ve made no secret of our disapproval of the prevailing practice in federal courts of using preliminary injunctions to allow private for-profit pipelines to grab immediate pre-condemnation possession of property using the
Whose House? Our House. D.C. Circuit: Pipeline Taking For Partial Export May Not Be A Public Use (For US Public)
A great result for colleague Carolyn Elefant, who represents property owners in a case and issue we’ve been following.
This is one of those Natural Gas Act pipeline cases. Not on the issue of immediate-possession-by-injunction (we’ll have the latest development in that chapter very soon), but on the administrative law side, involving FERC’s
Here’s The Agenda And Faculty For The 2020 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain And Land Valuation Litigation Conference, Nashville, Jan 23-25, 2020
You overwhelmingly asked for Nashville, and we’re bringing it to you!
Get ready, and hold your place now: here’s the list of programs and speakers for the 36th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, to be held at the Downtown Nashville Hilton, January 23,- 25, 2020. Two-and-a-half days with top-notch national
Indiana Ct of Appeals: Come On Parties, Please Resolve This Steaming Pile Of A Case
We’re posting the Indiana Court of Appeals’ recent opinion in Hoagland Family Ltd. P’ship v. Town of Clear Lake, No. 18A-PL-2088 (Aug. 28, 2019) not because it says much about eminent domain law, but more because (1) we commented on the case last time it was before the court, and (2) it’s kind
Get Ready: The 2020 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain And Land Valuation Litigation Conference Agenda Coming Soon
The final agenda and faculty list will soon be officially published, but we wanted to give you a preview of what is in store at the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 23-25, 2020, at the Nashville Hilton (downtown, just a few steps away from everything that Nashville has to offer).
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