Check out this language from a recent decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of D.C.:
The CityCenterDC development may be a laudable and exciting public-private partnership, and it may entail a more comprehensive level of urban planning and cooperation than the ordinary project, but the exercise will result in the creation of…
Check out this Power Point presentation, sent our way by a North Carolina colleague. It’s an explanation by the NC Department of Transportation of a “protected corridor,” a “[t]emporary restriction on development placed upon properties located within a proposed highway alignment.”
And what, pray tell, is the purpose of this protected corridor? To allow the…
We’re not sure whom to root for in this one, the crony capitalist movie moguls who’ve threatened to pull up stakes if the legislature doesn’t give them additional tax credits continue to film the House of Cards series in Maryland, or the members of the state House of Representatives who responded by threatening to…
For the second day running, we’re posting a trial court ruling. This time, it’s from a Kentucky state circuit court, and although it does not have precedential value, we’re guessing it will go further up the food chain to an appellate court, so it’s worth paying attention to the issue now.
In Kentuckians United…
This comes our way from Virginia colleague Elaine Mittleman, who sends along a link to a story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, “NCAA Tournament: Why Won’t College-Basketball Coaches Stay Off the Court?”
The story is about how some college basketball coaches are “regular offenders” and routinely ignore the rule that they…
It’s Friday, so we’re slacking a bit on the blogging. But our colleagues at the Nossaman firm have given us a couple of good pieces for our reading enjoyment.
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This is a longer post, but we think it’s worthy of your time. That’s because even though there’s a lot going on in the opinion by the California Court of Appeal in Property Reserve, Inc. v. Superior Court, No. C067758 (Mar. 13, 2014), it cuts through much of the unnecessary doctrinal fog surrounding takings …
In addition to the initial media coverage of and commentary about the Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision in Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States, No. 12-1173 (Mar. 10, 2014) rendered earlier this week, there has been more, mostly focused on the final lines of Justice Sotomayor’s solo dissent:
By changing course today, the Court…
Here’s another one we’ve been meaning to post for a while. In Ex parte Alabama Dep’t of Transportation, No.1101439 (Dec. 6, 2013), the Alabama Supreme Court concluded that inverse condemnation is the right cause of action when the government causes contaminated water to enter an owner’s property, resulting in (alleged) damage.
The plaintiff alleged that…
Here’s one that we meant to post earlier, but slipped through the cracks.
In Oklahoma eminent domain actions, the issue of valuation is first presented to a board of three commissioners (“disinterested landowners”) from the county in which the condemned property is located. The commissioners report to the court, and if one party doesn’t care…
