Since this is the season for self-congratulatory industry awards, we can’t overlook one of our industry’s highest honors, the Zoning and Planning Law Report Land Use Decision Awards (aka the “ZiPLeRs”). For those of you who do not subscribe to the Zoning and Planning Law Report, the “strangest, or at least more dramatic” land
Worth Reading: Law Review Comment On Hawaii’s “Procedural Standing” Theory And The Superferry Case
U. Hawaii law student Stewart A. Yerton has published a comment in the most recent issue of the Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal, “Procedural Standing and the Hawaii Superferry Decision” How a Surfer, a Paddler, and an Orchid Farmer Aligned Hawaii’s Standing Doctrine with Federal Principles.”
From the Introduction:
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Cases And Links From Today’s Hawaii Land Use Conference Sessions On Coastal Issues And Water Law
To all of you who attended the first day of the Hawaii Land Use Conference today, thank you. As promised, here are the items I discussed during my two sessions:
- United States v. Milner, 583 F.3d 1174 (9th Cir. 2009) – the case in which the Ninth Circuit affirmed a finding of common law
Friday Round-Up: Takings Ripeness, Defining “Hawaiian” Cultural Practices, Penn Central, and Judicial Takings
What we’re reading today:
- Tennessee Supreme Court Makes It Official: The U.S. Supreme Court Misread Tennessee Law in the Williamson County Case – Gideon Kanner on the latest twist in the regulatory takings ripeness mess. If you understand what the title means, you need to read this.
New Book: At The Cutting Edge 2010: Land Use Law From The Urban Lawyer
The ABA has announced the forthcoming publication of a new book by the State and Local Government Law Section: At the Cutting Edge 2010: Land Use Law from The Urban Lawyer, edited by my colleague Dwight H. Merriam, and which is “[a]n essential resource for practitioners, planning professionals and students, this book provides
New Article – Of Woodchucks and Prune Yards: A View of Judicial Takings From the Trenches
The Vermont Law Review has published an article authored by me and my Damon Key colleagues (and fellow law bloggers) Mark M. Murakami and Tred Eyerly. The article is an essay with our thoughts about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No.
Monday Round Up
We’ve been meaning to post links to these items for a while:
- New Survey Date on Public Attitudes Towards Kelo and Economic Development Takings (from Volokh Conspiracy).
- Call For Papers: Planning, Law, and Property Rights – Fifth International Conference, University of Alberta (May 25-28, 2011)
New Article: Recent Developments in Challenging the Right to Take in Eminent Domain
The Urban Lawyer, the law review published by the ABA Section of State & Local Goverment Law has published my article Recent Developments in Challenging the Right to Take in Eminent Domain, 42 Urban Lawyer 693 (Summer 2010). It summarizes several of the recent court decisions on public use and public purpose, although
Materials And Links From “Integrating Water Law and Land Use Planning” Seminar
Last Friday, I was on the faculty of Integrating Water Law and Land Use Planning, a seminar on Hawaii’s unique water law.
My session covered “Water Rights, Property Rights and the Law of Settled Expectations,” and provided a crash course in Hawaii land use law, the interrelationship between land use law and water law
Call For Eminent Domain Photos For Upcoming ABA Book
Here’s your chance to be a well-known “eminent domain photographer.”
The ABA Section of State and Local Government Law will soon be publishing a Handbook on Eminent Domain, and is need of photographs to illustrate it. We’re looking for high resolution, not copyrighted pictures for the various chapters to illustrate “public purpose,” “inverse condemnation,” “pre-trial,&rdquo