Like that old radio bit “Chicken Man” (“He’s everywhere! He’s everywhere!“), it looks like the robed ones down at 1 First Street NE are, like us, seeing takings lurking in cases where takings may not be the first thing on the menu.
For example, in yesterday’s opinions about whether the Sixth
This morning, the Supreme Court of Virginia heard oral arguments (by telephone) in a case we’ve been following.
This is an inverse case that asks whether less than a total loss of access to a parcel could be taking — did the owner plead enough to put the issue to a jury — and
Today, along with our colleague Bill DeVinney, we filed this amicus brief in support of the property owners’ cert petition in a case we’ve been following for a while.
Yes, this is the case where the Village police pretty much destroyed a family home in the course of their efforts to dislodge a shoplifter who
Here’s an article, just published in the American Planning Association’s monthly magazine, Planning (read the entire April issue here), summarizing the Ninth Circuit’s latest foray into regulatory takings, Bridge Aina Lea, LLC v. State of Hawaii Land Use Comm’n, No. 18-15738 (9th Cir. Feb. 19, 2020).
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following. We even visited the site with our class last year.
Today, the Virginia Supreme Court heard argument on the petition for appeal (streaming above from the webstream, or download the mp3 here) in what we call the oyster case because it involves the property
US 50 in Nevada – the “Loneliest Road”
Here’s the cert petition which we and our Nevada colleague Luke Busby filed today, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review this Question Presented:
Conflicting with Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp., 458 U.S. 419 (1982), the Supreme Court of Nevada concluded that to prevail on
This morning, in this order, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision in the Carousel Farms case.
That’s it, that’s all we’ve got.
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Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following that involves a local government prohibiting, via a zoning ordinance, the mining of silica (used as “frac sand”). Kind of like how Pennsylvania barred certain coal mining in our old friend, Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, 260 U.S. 393 (1922).
In Minnesota (where our story
Here’s the cert petition that we’ve been eagerly waiting to drop in a case we’ve been following (and which gathered a lot of public — and academic — attention and outrage).
Yes, this is the case where the Village police pretty much destroyed a family home in the course of their efforts to dislodge a
