Continued from Part I
Coldron seemed to sense that the court was in danger of veering off track and buying into the argument in the amicus brief filed by the League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties in support of the city about the claim being time-barred. Judge Clifton returned to his
Even in the rarefied, academic atmosphere of an appellate court, an advocate must sometimes have a thick skin. Today’s Ninth Circuit en banc oral arguments in the rent control takings case, Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, was one where the two lawyers who argued the case certainly came away with a few callouses.
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The New Jersey Supreme Court today issued a unanimous opinion in Klumpp v. Borough of Avalon, No. A-49-09 (Jun. 22, 2010), the case the New Jersey Law Journal described as the “bizarre condemnation” after the Appellate Division held that the government can assert inverse condemnation in order to take property without
The Ninth Circuit’s en banc rent control takings case, set for oral argument in Pasadena tomorrow, has generated big interest.
In Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, 582 F.3d 996 (9th Cir., Sep. 28, 2009), a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the city’s mobile home rent
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied review in City of Milwaukee Post No. 2874 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States v. Redevelopment Agency of the City of Milwaukee, No. 09-1204 (cert. petition filed Apr. 2, 2010).
This is the case challenging the constitutionality of the “undivided fee rule” as applied by the
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Today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11 is generating a lot of analysis and commentary. When the case was filed and argued, we suspected it would generate keen interest, so in anticipation, the ABA’s State and Local Government Law Section assembled
Here are some links to analysis of today’s U.S. Supreme Court opinions in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11:
Professor Ben Barros has posted the first analysis and summary of today’s Supreme Court opinions in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11. See Supreme Court Rules in Stop the Beach.
The Supreme Court today ruled in the Stop the Beach judicial takings case. In an opinion
Things I never thought I would see in a Supreme Court opinion include the riddle “how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood,” but there it is, in black and white on page 11 of Justice Scalia’s opinion today in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t