(We’re not sure who captured and posted the above video — wasn’t us — but to whomever did so, thank you.)
Earlier this week, our colleague Mark M. Murakami spoke at the University of Hawaii Law School on a panel about “The PLDC and Property Rights in Hawaii.” PLDC refers to the Public…
Having recently attended the 7th International Conference of the Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights in Portland, Oregon, we offer this irreverent view of that city’s culture, “Insufferable Portland,” by Mark Hemingway at the Weekly Standard. The landscape he portrays should be familiar to anyone who knows Portland, Berkeley, the…
Update January 20, 2015: here are links to the most recent reports and the cert-stage briefs in the second go-round for the case: Horne II “The World’s Most Outdated Law” Crahses Headlong Into Takings.
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It’s not really the “Sun-Maid Girl,” but rather the organization the trademark now represents, Sun-Maid Growers of…
Update: Gideon Kanner’s thoughts on the case here.
As we mentioned in this post about earlier proceedings in the case, when the plaintiff/property owner’s name is “Jerry McGuire” and he is asserting a claim for compensation, it’s inevitable that we all make reference to the “show me the money” catchphrase from Jerry …
Here’s the amicus brief filed today on behalf of the International Municipal Lawyers Association in Horne v. United States Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 12-123 (cert. granted Nov. 20, 2012). The brief argues:
Petitioners have needlessly complicated the vindication of their asserted rights under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment by failing to file…
Mark your calendars: on Thursday, February 21, 2013, James Burling, director of the Pacific LegalFoundation and principal attorney at PLF’s Property Rights practice group and U. Hawaii lawprof Maxine Burkett willdiscuss “Do Property Rights Matter When The Environment IsGoing To Hell In A Handbasket?“
The forum — presented by the EnvironmentalLaw Program…
Here’s the SG’s merits brief in Horne v. United States Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 12-123 (cert. granted Nov. 20, 2012),
In Horne, the question is whether farmers who assert that an agricultural regulations known as “marketing orders,” by which they are forced to surrender large percentages of their raisin crops to the USDA…
What we’re reading today:
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Here‘s what we think is the final top-side amicus brief in Horne v. United States Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 12-122 (cert. granted. Nov. 20, 2012), supporting the petitioner/property owner. Filed by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the brief argues that where “the government requires a direct transfer of funds, and…
We’re used to knee-jerk reactions by state and local governments to takings claims: whatever the circumstances, the property owner is wrong, and loses. So it’s nice to see a brief where a state government stakes out a more objective position.
Texas has filed an amicus brief in Horne v. United States Dep’t of Agriculture…
