Here’s the amici brief we’re filing today on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center and the Hillsborough County Chapter of the NAACP in support of a cert petition now pending at the Supreme Court.
The case centers around a “class of one” Equal Protection claim in which the plaintiff/petitioner alleges
In a ruling that no one who was paying attention could claim to be surprised by, the Hawaii Supreme Court yesterday issued a 4-1 memorandum opinion holding that the “agricultural lands” section of the Hawaii Constitution isn’t self-executing, and which approved the State Land Use Commission’s reclassification of land on Oahu from agricultural to urban
Yet another detour back to our second favorite topic, election law.
Casetext asked us to provide some commentary and analysis of the Supreme Court’s recent Evenwel opinion, and we produced this piece (“What Does Evenwel v. Abbott Mean For ‘One Person, One Vote?’“), which is a refinement of our earlier blog
When you raise 13 issues on appeal, you shouldn’t be surprised if the court balks at analyzing them all. That was the case in City of Gulfport v. Dedeaux Utility Co., No. 2014-CA-00556-SCT (Mar. 24, 2016), where the Mississippi Supreme Court didn’t address the majority of the points raised by the city on
Early next month, the California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases which we’ve been closely following:
Who must may be counted for reapportionment purposes?
Everyone!
A slight detour from our usual fare, to post some thoughts about today’s big U.S. Supreme Court opinion on election law in Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940. Evenwel is the sleeper case of the Term, and opened the possibility that the we might
Here’s a new cert petition, seeking SCOTUS review of an unpublished opinion from the Eleventh Circuit. That court concluded that Dibbs’ equal protection challenge to the Hillsborough County’s Community Plan failed because he could not identify others who were similarly situated but treated differently.
Dibbs asserted. among other claims, that the County treated
A nondescript corner of what could be just about any urban city street in America. Nothing of overwhelming interest, just the usual commercial buildings, traffic signals, and small businesses. A self-storage facility. Pretty typical in a Commercial district. Here, the “C-4 District.”
Nothing at all, in fact, to indicate that just over a century ago, this was
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit doesn’t handle too many takings, eminent domain, or property rights related cases. But after today’s announcement that the Chief Judge of the Circuit was nominated for the vacant spot on the U.S. Supreme Court, we did a search through the legal databases anyhow, just in case
Read this: “The Accidental Abstention Doctrine: After Thirty Years, the Case for Diverting Federal Takings Claims to State Court Under Williamson County Has Yet to Be Made,” by R.S. Radford and Jennifer Fry Thompson, published in the most recent edition of the Baylor Law Review.
If the title weren’t enough to