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Here’s the recently-published brochure with more details about the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation LItigation conference, set for Austin in January 2016. 

In the coming days and weeks, we’ll be posting more details about the conference. Our co-planning chairs Joe Waldo, Jack Sperber, and Andrew Brigham have assembled a great agenda, taught by

In Dimare Fresh, Inc. v. United States, No. 15-5006 (Oct. 28, 2015), the Federal Circuit held that the FDA wasn’t liable for a taking when it issued an incorrect food safety warning that hurt the tomato market, because it was just a warning and didn’t come with coercive action like a quarantine or a

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Here’s the full agenda for the 2016 Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation / Condemnation 101 Conference, January 28-30, 2016, in Austin, Texas. 

Together with our friend and colleague Joe Waldo, we think we’re put together a pretty good program that covers a lot of ground. This is the first time the conference has been

Here’s the Brief in Opposition in the case which asks whether takings claims against the federal government — which we described as subject to a “jurisdictional ambush” due to the old Tucker Act Shuffle — are subject to the rule of 28 U.S.C. § 1500 set out in the Tohono O’odham case. 

If that’s a lot

A short one from the Federal Circuit, Rasmuson v. United States, No. 14-5089 (Oct. 5, 2015), that comes out of a rails-to-trails case, but has wider applicability. 

The case involved the usual: plaintiffs owned lands over which the railroad had rights of way, and when the railroad ceased operating and the Surface Transportation Board

We’re continuing our Detroit-themed posts today, with this one about auto bailouts and takings.

We generally don’t post trial court decisions, preferring to wait until we have a published opinion from a court of appeals. But from time to time, we have made exceptions, like here, where the counsel involved are well-known and the issue

Remember the Roca Solida case? That’s the follow up to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation, 131 S. Ct. 1723 (2011), highlighting the jurisdictional problem in takings cases which that case left open. We labeled it a “jurisdictional ambush” that awaits any property owner who has a takings

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The Land Use Institute, a program that for many years has been planned by co-chairs Frank Schnidman and Gideon Kanner, has found a new home with the American Bar Association’s Section of State and Local Government Law as the main sponsor. It also has a new Planning co-chair, Dean Patty Salkin of Touro Law