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.
If you can make sense of the Montana Supreme Court’s analysis in Letica Land Co. v. Anaconda-Deer Lodge County, No. DA 18-0249 (Feb. 5, 2019), we are all ears, because we sure cannot.
The court concluded that the county’s actions in furtherance of its claim to own a road located on Letica’s property —
Here is our annual “proof of life” photo, taken from the dais during the opening session, to prove that all 250 of us were in the room for the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain Conference, and not out on a Palm Springs golf course (it is 72º and sunny, so a golf course would not be a
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
If you didn’t register to attend the 36th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference later this week in Palm Springs, California, well then, shame on you!
According to the National Weather Service, while you and the rest of the country is freezing, we’ll be enjoying the balmy desert climes, and discussing
Pay special attention to Justice Breyer’s questioning of Ms. Knick’s counsel, Dave Breemer. Yes, oral argument is the Court’s time to do with as it wishes, but was Justice Breyer actually trying to get at anything, or just running out the clock with a questions that didn’t seem to have any point. Does he really
There’s been a lot written after the Supreme Court heard (re)arguments earlier this week in Knick v. Township of Scott, No. 17-647, most of it helpful in understanding what issues the Justices are considering, and how each of them might break on the ultimate question: should Williamson County be overruled, and should property owners