Congratulations to friend and colleague Thor Hearne for his being named as one the Top 50 Litigation Trailblazers by the National Law Journal. Or should we say Rails-to-Trails-Blazer?
Readers of the blog are familiar with his guest posts (see also this one), our coverage of his work, and his own Federal
Biafora v. United States, No, 2013-5130 (Dec. 10, 2014), is one of those opinions that you don’t really look forward to reading. Something about the Federal Circuit seems to attract these type of takings cases, where the parties are many, the alphabet-soup regulatory environment is byzantine, and the effort of understanding the context often
For those of you who couldn’t join us at the William & Mary Law School last month for the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (see our report here), the law school has made videos of the four panel presentations available here.
They’re high quality videos, so be prepared for big downloads, but the
To all who were able to join today’s ABA Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate’s Condemnation, Zoning and Land Use Committee’s call on the AIG takings trial, currently pending in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, thank you for participating. I’ve posted the entire talk (minus questions) above.
Here are the links to the
“You can’t have rights without advocates.”
– Michael Berger
We’re at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia today for the 11th Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. As we’ve noted earlier, Michael Berger is this
Here’s one to definitely add to your blogroll: Federal Takings, by the rails-to-trails litigation practice at Arent Fox, including our frequent guest blogger, Thor Hearne.
The focus is on rails-to-trails cases, but also by necessity covers takings cases in the Court of Federal Claims and the Federal Circuit. Recent posts include, “Arent Fox
Here’s a new cert petition, filed yesterday, that poses two interesting issues, the first of federalism, the other of exactions.
This is a rails-to-trails case in which the federal government asserts that the easements imposed on private property for a public park in New York City after the railway was abandoned did not result
To those of you who joined us at the ABA’s Land Use, Planning, and Development Forum, thank you. Here are links to some of the topics I mentioned:
We finally got around to reading “What Lies Beneath,” an opinion piece from the New York Times that we’ve been saving in our to-read list since the spring, Linda Greenhouse’s musings on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision in Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States.
In that piece, Ms. Greenhouse
A federal court authorized court-appointed counsel in a criminal prosecution to retain Marcum for forensic accounting and litigation support services. There’s a federal statute which allows for payment for these services, and if the cost exceeds $2,400, the chief judge of the regional circuit must approve. The work Marcum performed went over that amount. By