For those who tuned in to today’s webinar Eminent Domain: Redevelopment Challenges for Local Government, here are the cases I spoke about during my session:
This is a post for those who decided they wanted to visit a law blog today instead of (a) filling their bellies with the usual Thanksgiving fare; (b) watching football on TV; (c) gearing up for the insanity of the day-after shopping; or (d) pretty much anything else.
Seriously, what are you doing reading a
We’ve been kind of busy in the last few days with a couple of appellate briefs, so haven’t had a lot of time to post up the latest cases and articles of interest. But here’s what we are reading today, in between brief writing:
Here’s what’s going on:
“We are extremely pleased,” said newspaper attorney
This just in: In Los Angeles County Metro. Trans. Auth. v. Alameda Produce Market, LLC, No. S188128 (Nov. 14, 2011), the California Supreme Court held:
Under California’s “quick-take” eminent domain procedure, a public entity filing a condemnation action may seek immediate possession of the condemned property upon depositing with the court the probable compensation
Hold the date: on Tuesday, December 6, 2011, from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m., the University of Hawaii School of Law is sponsoring a reception at the Pacific Club, in Honolulu to celebrate the publication of Eminent Domain, a Handbook of Condemnation Law by the American Bar Association.
Since so many of the people who worked
Been tied up finalizing one brief and drafting another, so haven’t had time to post, but here’s what we’re reading today:
Whenever a judge turns to rational-basis analysis, he’s basically saying, ‘You think two plus two equals five, and I don’t know how to add.’ –
Professor Richard Epstein, at an interesting debate sponsored earlier this evening by the Columbia Law School Federalist Society. Professor Epstein and Chief Judge Alex Kozinski (9th Cir.) debated the
This has been a pretty good week for my St. Louis colleague Thor Hearne.
First, he obtained summary judgment in the Court of Federal Claims for the property owners in a rails-to-trails case, Dana R. Hodges Trust v. United States, No. 09-289 L (Oct. 25, 2011). Next, his Cardinals come back from the
We’re not all that down with the “occupy movement.” It seems too unfocused, too anti-competition, too anti-success for us to get on board with the idea that equality of result is what the American dream and our system are based on.
But things like this profile of MaryAnne Gilmartin, executive vice president of commercial and