Due process

In Cloverleaf Realty of New York, Inc. v. Town of Wawayanda, No. 07-3405-cv (July 15, 2009), the Second Circuit held that a dismissal by a state court on statute of limitations ground does not preclude the plaintiff from bringing the same claim in a federal court which has a longer statute of limitations.

Needing

In What’s At Stake in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Lawprof D. Benjamin Barros posts a comprehensive summary of “judicial takings” case accepted for review by the US Supreme Court, Stop the Beachfront Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11 (cert. granted. June 15, 2009). Raises several interesting points and worth

Here are items which we’ve been reviewing today:

  • Dwight Merriam’s thoughts on SCOTUS nominee, Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
  • A report that the “Florida Hometown Democracy” initiative has made the 2010 ballot. According to the report “[i]f the proposal gets 60 percent approval at the polls, HometownDemocracy would require local referendums on changes to city

The U.S. Supreme Court last week agreed to review the Florida Supreme Court’s decision in Walton County v. Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc.,998 So.2d 1102 (Fla. Sep. 29, 2008), which heldthat a state statute prohibiting “beach renourishment” without apermit did not effect a taking of littoral (beachfront) property, eventhough it altered the long-standing rights

I’ve been reading some noteworthy law journal articles on the subject of eminent domain —  two on the issue of pretext, and one on just compensation. Worth reviewing.

  • Daniel S. Hafetz, Ferreting Out Favoritism: Bringing Pretext Claims After Kelo, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 3095 (2009).

    The plaintiffs in Goldstein based their pretext claims on both

In Stop the Beachfront Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11 (cert. granted. June 15, 2009), the US Supreme Court agreed to review a case that raises several important takings issues, including the issue of whether a court decision can take property. The ABA Journal’s July 2006 report “Up Against

Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the nominee to fill Justice David Souter’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, has served as either a federal District or Circuit Judge for 18 years during which she’s either authored or sat on panels in cases involving eminent domain or regulatory takings.  Here’s an admittedly unscientific sampling of those