According to the Washington Post, a Texas county judge has concluded that TransCanada is a common carrier, and therefore may exercise eminent domain to take property for its Keystone XL pipeline.
In an unusual twist (but one which we fully expect to see more of as smartphones become ubiquitous), the court apparently informed the
If actor John Cusack is in favor of using eminent domain to condemn underwater mortgages, who are we to be naysayers? In light of his support, we’ll just have to revisit our earlier skepticism.
After all, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, you know.
Today’s American Banker has a story on the latest development in the let’s-use-eminent-domain-to-take-underwater-mortgages scheme: the Federal Housing Finance Agency has sent a strong shot across the bow of local governments contemplating such a move (e.g., San Bernadino, Chicago, even Berkeley):
Uh, don’t.
Full statement here, or below. The American Banker story
For those of you sticking around Chicago after the ABA Annual Meeting, there’s the opportunity for even more land use, zoning, takings, and condemnation programming. ALI-CLE (fka ALI-ABA) is putting on it’s annual Land Use Institute later this week. It looks like Planning Co-Chairs Gideon Kanner and Frank Schnidman have put together a wide-ranging
Here are the cases and links that I discussed at today’s ABA session on eminent domain:
Update: More here.
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Today, I have the great pleasure of welcoming Dwight H. Merriam, a partner with the Robinson & Cole firm, as the Connecticut member of Owners’ Counsel of America. OCA is the nationwide network of the most experienced eminent domain and property rights lawyers who, as noted in
text Idaho v. HI Boise, LLC, No. 38344 (June 29, 2012).
More here.
For those who listened in to the just-concluded “Recent Developments in Eminent Domain” teleconference, thank you. Here are the links to the cases and briefs that we discussed that were not included in your written materials. Also, click on the link above to order the audio CD of the program if you missed
Mark your calendars for next Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern (noon CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT, 7:00 a.m. Hawaii Time) for “Recent Developments in Eminent Domain,” a live audio program sponsored by Lorman Education.
It’s a 1.5 hour teleconference discussing some of the more important recent court decisions
No, not another case from the Hawaii courts, but from an island further afield, Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands.
We were going to do a write-up of Commonwealth v. Lot No. 353 New G, No. 2012-MP-06 (CNMI June 28, 2012), but Gideon Kanner beat us to it. Read the opinion, and his