Here are some upcoming events in which you may be interested, in chronological order:
Here’s the full agenda for the 2016 Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation / Condemnation 101 Conference, January 28-30, 2016, in Austin, Texas.
Together with our friend and colleague Joe Waldo, we think we’re put together a pretty good program that covers a lot of ground. This is the first time the conference has been
Here’s the Brief in Opposition in the case which asks whether takings claims against the federal government — which we described as subject to a “jurisdictional ambush” due to the old Tucker Act Shuffle — are subject to the rule of 28 U.S.C. § 1500 set out in the Tohono O’odham case.
If that’s a lot
We don’t want to take too much time away from our usual land use, takings, and eminent domain fare, but we just couldn’t let this one go by without comment.
Last Friday, we posted our amici brief in Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940, the reapportionment case which the U.S. Supreme Court is considering. The issue
Who gets counted for reapportionment purposes?
Everyone!
Please forgive the deviation (a pun for our election law colleagues) from the blog’s usual land use and takings fare, but frequent readers understand that we also have an interest in election law, and occasionally post up items of interest.
Today we filed this amici brief in Evenwel v. Abbott
We’re in Detroit and environs for the weekend, doing some scouting for an upcoming meeting of the ABA’s Section of State and Local Government Law.
Had a Faygo Redpop at the site of Tiger Stadium in Corktown, dinner in Poletown, a fresh peach at the Saturday Eastern Market, and read this recent Sixth
Here’s the cert petition you knew was coming, which asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review the California Supreme Court’s decision upholding the City of San Jose’s “inclusionary housing” requirement by applying rational basis review. The California court held the requirement was not an “exaction,” and was no more than a mere zoning regulation or
As noted in the Honolulu Civil Beat story, “Hawaii AG Backs Vermont GMO Labeling Law,” Hawaii has signed on to an amici brief in support of the State of Vermont in the Second Circuit appeal of a Vermont federal court’s ruling which rejected a challenge to Vermont’s requirement to label GMO products.
We visited Think Tech Hawaii’s downtown studios for a chat with Chris Lethem about Evenwel v. Abbott, the one-person-one-vote reapportionment case currently being briefed in the U.S. Supreme Court. As we’ve written, Evenwel could directly affect how Hawaii has reapportioned its legislature since statehood, and is a case to follow closely.
We
Those of you who are members of the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law, tune in tomorrow, Friday, September 11, 2015 for the Land Use Committee’s monthly call.
It will feature two speakers, talking about the California Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding San Jose’s “workforce housing” requirement against a claim that it was