A reminder: on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. ET, we will be live blogging the oral arguments in Kaur v. New York State Urban Development Corp.
In that case, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division (First Department) struck down the attempted taking of land north of Columbia University in New York…
Here are the latest filings in Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. State of Hawaii, No. 28175 (cert. application filed Apr. 22, 2010). In that case, the property owners are asking the Hawaii Supreme Court to review the decision of the Intermediate Court of Appeals in Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. State of …
A new article worth reading: Eminent Domain Due Process, 119 Yale L. J. 1280 (2010) by D. Zachary Hudson. Here’s the abstract:
This Note analyzes the apparent disconnect between eminent domain doctrine and due process doctrine. Following Kelo, numerous states have reformed their eminent domain laws in an effort to ensure that the…
A couple of links following up on our recent post about 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).
That’s the case in which the Supreme Court is being asked to review…
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking to members of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association about some of the legal issues facing their businesses, and property owners in general. Here are the links I mentioned:
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Today, on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders and the Wisconsin Building Association, we filed this brief amici curiae 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).
The brief…
The property owners have filed an application for a writ of certiorari asking the Hawaii Supreme Court to review the decision of the Intermediate Court of Appeals in Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. State of Hawaii, 122 Haw. 34, 222 P.3d 441 (Haw. Ct. App. 2009).
Disclosure: we filed an amicus brief supporting…
I’m on the road so haven’t had the opportunity to digest this one in more detail.
In an unpublished opinion in Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles v. Kramer Metals, No. B208726 (Apr. 23, 2010, the California Court of Appeal (Second District) held:
Kramer Metals, a California partnership, Stanley J. Kramer…
A fascinating case is now pending in Hawaii’s Intermediate Court of Appeals involving the nature of “Torrens” title and, in a broader sense, the nature of property rights themselves.
Hawaii has had a dual system of land registration. One is your run-of-the-mill system of registering deeds (what we creatively call “Regular System”). The other is…
In granting a special zoning exemption to Shelter House, Iowa City allowed it to build a homeless shelter on land next to Mr. and Mrs. Dahlen’s mobile home park. After losing their challenge to the zoning exemption, the Dahlens filed suit in federal court alleging the exemption violated their due process rights.
That claim was…
