Missed out on the 2021 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference swag?
Well fear not: here’s your chance to get your high-class reminder — a kit of road warrior essentials — to save the Conference date on your calendar. We’re already underway with planning the agenda and faculty, so it’s never too soon
Here’s the cert petition that we’ve been eagerly waiting to drop in a case we’ve been following (and which gathered a lot of public — and academic — attention and outrage).
Yes, this is the case where the Village police pretty much destroyed a family home in the course of their efforts to dislodge a
As we noted recently, our spring William and Mary Law course is taking a look at the role of property rights in the debates about the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the political atmosphere from the founding to the Civil War. Being able to studying these subject in Williamsburg is even better, because we’re
Where is this? The clues are all in the picture.
You’ve seen the citation so many times, your eyes probably gloss over it. After all, Westlaw lists it with 4,507 “Citing References.” That’s a heckuva lot of citations to a single case.
Like this one, pulled from a recent random federal district court opinion:
And
Check out the latest (and final) episode of the Institute for Justice’s “Bound by Oath” podcast. IJ’s John K. Ross was kind enough to ask us to be a guest on the show titled “Excessive Fines,” and our friend and colleague Bob McNamara and I sat down in Nashville to record our
Check out these two amici briefs, just filed in a case we’ve been following, about what a property owner who is awarded just compensation in a state court eminent domain lawsuit is supposed to do if the local government that is ordered to pay the just compensation judgment … doesn’t.
The property owner sued
Picture 1: how normal people see pie.
Picture 2: how you see pie if you’re coming to the
ALI-CLE Eminent Domain Conference.
If you get the above, you probably are already set to join us next week for the 37th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Nashville. (If not, shame on
It’s 2020, so out with the old, in with the new.
We like any opinion that starts off with “[t]he facts giving rise to this appeal are complicated but do not require a lengthy recitation.” Because that signals the opinion writer has done the hard work, because in order to explain complicated facts in a
We’re seeing a lot of “end of year” and “end of decade” wrap-ups, so figured we’d better chime in.
As the above graphic hints (this is detail of the doors of the U.S. Supreme Court), our biggest case of 2019 (and probably of the twenty-aughts) is Knick v. Township of Scott
If you get this, you need to attend the 37th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 23-25, 2020, in Nashville.
And if you don’t get this, you need to attend more.
