Two years ago, Owners’ Counsel of America endowed a scholarship in the name of its founder, property rights advocate and trial lawyer Toby Prince Brigham (1934-2021). The scholarship is for a second- or third- year law student to attend the annual three-day ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference (the upcoming Conference will be
Here’s the latest in an issue we’ve been following.
Let’s say the government thinks you have committed a crime (or someone else has). To investigate, it seizes property as evidence or potential evidence. But after things wrap up and it no longer needs the property as evidence, the government doesn’t return it to its owner.
In Sterling Hotels,LLC v. McKay, No. 22-1345 (June 22, 2023) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit considered whether a hotel could sue a state elevator inspector who barred the hotel from operating its elevators for reasons the state’s Elevator Safety Board had not approved. As a result, the hotel couldn’t rent
In this very short (but apparently published) opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals held that it was not right to dismiss a claim on the pleadings and that factual development is warranted, even where the complaint alleges that a municipal land use ordinance is arbitrary and capricious, and the city claims it has a
A new cert petition to check out. We don’t need to explain it much, because the petition does a good job of it.
Here’s the Question Presented:
New York State redevelopment agency seized, via eminent domain, a large tract of real estate occupied by an existing building in downtown Brooklyn for redevelopment. The building, partially
We’ll be rendering to unto Caesar, but first we must
decide: classic or creamy?
That was quick: it seems like it was only yesterday — or maybe more accurately, less than a month ago — that we were listening in live to the Supreme Court as it heard arguments in Tyler v. Hennepin County
We’re not going to dwell too much on the U.S. Court of Appeals’ opinion in Fox v. Saginaw County, No. 22-1265 (Apr. 28, 2023), because even though it is a case involving the “home equity theft” takings issue argued at the Supreme Court last week, this one tells us more about civil procedure
Our Pacific Legal Foundation Property Rights Litigation Tyler team,
and Counsel of Record Christina Martin (second from right)
Here are your links to the buzz about Tyler v. Hennepin County, No. 22-166, our law firm’s case which argues that Hennepin County’s seizure of Ms. Tyler’s condo and then keeping the excess equity over what
Coffee is for closers.
(Yes, we were up and at the desk at 4 a.m. local time
to listen live. We just needed a direct injection of coffee.)
Here is the transcript, and the audio recording of today’s U.S. Supreme Court arguments in Tyler v. Hennepin County, No. 22-166, our law firm’s case
Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in Tyler v. Hennepin County, No. 22-166, our law firm’s case which argues that Hennepin County’s keeping the excess equity in Ms. Tyler’s home over what she owed in property taxes and fees, is