Have you ever read one of those opinions where each piece seems okay, but as a whole the result just doesn’t sit well? The Idaho Supreme Court’s opinion in State of Idaho, Dep’t of Transportation v. Grathol, No. 40168 (Feb. 11, 2015) is just one of those.
You’ve no doubt heard a lot about
Yesterday, we were able to attend the Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a case which we posted on last month, Rancho de Calistoga v. City of Calistoga, No. 12-17749.
In that case, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the complaint filed by the owner of a wine country
Here’s the recently-filed amici brief of the National Federation of Independent Business and the NFIB Small Business Legal Center, which urges the Texas Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeals’ Memorandum Opinion in City of Dallas v. Highway 205 Farms, Ltd., No. 05-13-00951-DV (July 22, 2014).
This case raises a jurisdictional issue that
Here are the links from our opening sessions this morning:
The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but they do grind. Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit granted a motion we filed back in June 2013, and permitted us to file this amicus brief on behalf of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association in a case that is scheduled to be argued in mid-February 2015, Rancho de
Last we checked in with the Bridge Aina Lea case, the Ninth Circuit said it would hold off on a decision until the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled in the associated state court litigation (see 9th Cir Says “Let’s Wait” On Hawaii Supreme Court To Rule In Bridge Aina Lea).
This is the federal court
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following, the property owner’s cert petition, filed last week, in which a U.S. District Court invalidated a Florida county’s “Right of Way Preservation Ordinance” which allows it to land bank for a future road corridors by means of an exaction. The court concluded the ordinance
It’s always a safe bet to predict that the Supreme Court will deny review in a case, and if that’s what you had guessed for Kurtz v. Verizon New York, Inc., No. 14-439 (cert. petition filed Oct. 14, 2014), today’s order list would prove you right.
That’s the case in which the Second Circuit
Perhaps lost in all of today’s excitement surrounding the Supreme Court agreeing to review the same-sex marriage cases, is today’s cert grant in Horne v. USDA, No. 14-275, the California raisin case. That’s the case in which on remand from SCOTUS, the Ninth Circuit held that “the world’s most outdated law” was not
It’s been accepted for such a long time that it’s become one of those things that “everyone knows we’ve always done it that way,” but most probably don’t quite know why that is so: if you have to sue the United States for a regulatory taking or inverse condemnation, you go to the