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One from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

In In re Financial Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico, No. 22-1048 (Nov. 22, 2022), the court affirmed the district court’s 12(b)(6) dismissal of a takings claim because the government didn’t actually force the plaintiff credit unions into buying what the complaint

Here it is, the official agenda and program for the 40th ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, February 2-4, 2023 (with a special event the evening of Wednesday, February 1, 2023 to entice you to arrive early).

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Here’s the brochure with the complete agenda, schedule, and faculty listing. But to tempt you,

Well, that was quick. As we noted here, we recently argued a case in the Ninth Circuit (October 20, 2022) about whether a regulatory takings claim is ripe

Not long after we posted the argument recording, the Ninth Circuit panel issued a short memorandum opinion rejecting our arguments wholesale (November 1, 2022).

So earlier

Just missed

Yes, the granddaddy of all SCOTUS regulatory takings cases, from which we got such phrases as these was argued 100 years ago this day.

  • The general rule, at least, is that, while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far, it will be recognized as a taking.”
  • Government

October 20, 2022 was what one advocate noted was “land use day at the Ninth Circuit,” because three out of the four cases being argued in Courtroom 3 of the San Francisco courthouse were indeed land use — or perhaps more accurately, regulatory takings — cases.

Ours was one of those cases, Ralston v. San

We won’t be providing our detailed thoughts on last week’s U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s opinion in Hall v. Meisner, No. 21-1700 (Oct. 13, 2022), because we’re obviously biased: our law firm colleagues Christina Martin and Kady Valois represent the prevailing property owners, so we naturally agree with the court. Thus

That’s right: Clint Schumacher’s Eminent Domain Podcast has reached its 100th episode. Very impressive, Clint!

And for this “very special episode,” Clint was kind enough to ask us to return to celebrate. In a wide-ranging hour-plus chat, Clint and I talked property rights and takings of course, but also hit on several

A short one (unpublished) from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, considering an issue we’ve been following: what is the effect of the government’s claim that it is regulating property for what looks like a valid “police power” purpose?

As noted, that’s a road we’ve been down before. Here’s a sampling:

Here’s the latest in a controversy we’ve been following.

In 624 Broadway LLC v. Gary Housing Authority, No. 22S-CT-140 (Aug. 29, 2022), the Indiana Supreme Court held that the Authority failed to provide the property owner adequate notice that it would be taking its property as part of a redevelopment project.

The Gary

The facts are pretty straightforward in the U.S. Court of Appeals’ opinion in Frein v. Pennsylvania State Police, No. 21-1830 (Aug. 30, 2022):

Eric Matthew Frein is on death row for cold-blooded murder. In 2014, he ambushed two Pennsylvania State Troopers, killing one and injuring the other. For a while, he evaded capture. Police