A lot is being written about Friday’s Supreme Court opinions in Knick v. Township of Scott, No. 17-647 (U.S. June 21, 2019) (including us). Here’s a sampling.
We’ll be doing a longer post with our thoughts on the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Knick v. Township of Scott, No. 17-647 (June 21, 2019). But here’s the big picture.
It appears that at least five Justices finally seem to understand what we in the property bar have been saying for decades
Here are the links to the cases which were not in your materials. Theme of the day: amateurs!
Our thanks to colleagues Jill Gelineau and Paul Sundermier for asking us to present. It was good to see our Oregon friends again.
A forthcoming article in the Cornell Law Review (“Virtual Briefing at the Supreme Court“) argues that it’s an “open secret” that the way to influence a SCOTUS case is to hit up social media:
The open secret of Supreme Court advocacy in a digital era is that there is a new way to
With the opinion in the Knick v. Township of Scott case to drop as soon as Tuesday (we’re guessing the opinion will be by Chief Justice Roberts, by the way), hold on: we’re about to get super nerdy here. Impossibly nerdy. Yes, we’re revisiting the Star Trek analogies. We’ve been down this road before
Here’s what’s on the reading list for today:
Great crowd today in Austin for CLE International’s Eminent Domain seminar, co-chaired by our colleagues Chris Clough, Sejin Brooks, and Christopher Oddo. We spoke about “National Trends and Developing Issues in Eminent Domain.”
Here are the cases I referred to which are not included in your written materials:
Here’s the amici brief we signed onto for Owners’ Counsel of America, filed last week in a regulatory takings case we’ve been following.
This brief, one of several filed which urge the Court to review the Federal Circuit’s conclusion there was no taking (despite a Court of Federal Claims verdict that there was)
Here’s one we’ve been meaning to post for a while, the latest in a case we’ve been following. Yes, its the Love Terminal Partners cert petition.
Rather than go into the details about the case, we instead refer you to our post about the Federal Circuit’s opinion, the Court of Federal Claims verdict
Thank you to our colleague, economist William Wade, for sending along this piece, reacting to a recent decision by the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
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Financial inconsistency bedevils takings decisions
This blog recently reported on a Massachusetts Appellate Court takings case ruling (Smyth v. Conservation Comm’n of Falmouth, No.