My thanks to Bart Freedman (K&L Gates) and Kinnon Williams (Inslee Best Doezie & Ryder) for asking me to speak on national takings and inverse condemnation issues at yesterday’s Eminent Domain conference in Seattle.
As you can see, the room was packed and standing room only. Here are the cases and issues I mentioned
No, it’s not for that job position, recently vacated.
This is an opening at a slightly lower level, but perhaps of more interest to our readers. The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking a “Trial Attorney (Inverse Condemnation) GS-14/15.” Here’s the job description:
The attorney selected will be expected to represent the
Here’s the latest in the “audacious” takings case brought by AIG against the federal government for the 2008 fed takeover. The heart of the complaint is that the acquisition of AIG was an unconstitutional exaction. The Court of Federal Claims rendered a verdict that was hailed as a groundbreaking victory, but which ultimately
Here’s another amici brief (on behalf of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, and Owners’ Counsel of America, authored by takings/SCOTUS superstar Michael Berger) supporting the cert petition we filed last month which asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision of the Mississippi Supreme Court. Here’s the amicus brief which Pacific Legal
Here’s the amicus brief, filed yesterday by Pacific Legal Foundation is support of the cert petition we filed last month which asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision of the Mississippi Supreme Court.
First, some background. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed “Toll Project No. 1,” the U.S. Highway 90 crossing of Bay St. Louis
There’s a lot of backstory in Reoforce, Inc. v. United States, No. 15-5084 (Mar. 17, 2017), involving mining claims, federal patents, and public lands. An interesting read, we won’t go into the details.
But suffice it to say that Reoforce thought it had a pretty decent chance of obtaining a patent for federal land
Here’s an article, recently published by the Urban Lawyer (the law review produced by our ABA section, the Section of State and Local Government Law), with our take on the most interesting and important eminent domain and takings rulings from the past year.
Many of the cases discussed will be familiar to regular
Today, in addition to listening to sessions on Ethics, jury presentations, and expert witnesses, we presented (along with Dave Breemer of Pacific Legal Foundation) a session on “Takings and the Police Power.” Here are the links to the cases and articles I discussed in my portion of the presentation:
Here are the links and references to the cases we spoke about today at our opening session on the national trends in eminent domain law at the 2017 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in San Diego.
We again have a record attendance, and a good number of new attendees. If you aren’t
There have been a lot of takings and takings-related decisions coming out of the Court of Federal Claims lately, and we’ve held off on posting them individually. So to start off your New Year, here is a pop quiz.
Your task: guess whether the CFC held there was a taking, or no taking (answers below):