We’ve been busy filing an appellate brief and drafting another, so until now, haven’t had the chance to post up links about Tuesday’s New York Court of Appeals oral argument in Kaur v. New York State Urban Development Corp.
We live blogged the arguments, following along on the court’s video webcast. The court usually…
Today, starting at 2:00 p.m. ET, the New York Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in Kaur v. New York State Urban Development Corp. In that case, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division (First Department) struck down the attempted taking of land north of Columbia University in New York City because of…
A reminder: on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. ET, we will be live blogging the oral arguments in Kaur v. New York State Urban Development Corp.
In that case, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division (First Department) struck down the attempted taking of land north of Columbia University in New York…
In Smith v. Ark. Midstream Gas Servs, No 09-1186 (May 27, 2010), the Arkansas Supreme Court concluded that a taking for a natural gas pipeline by a private, for-profit utility company was not a violation of the state constitution’s public use clause.
Arkansas law delegates the power of eminent domain to certain pipeline companies…
Here’s a case, issued yesterday by a California Court of Appeal, that is not directly about the use of eminent domain for redevelopment purposes to remedy “blight,” but is nonetheless worth reviewing since it shows how redevelopment supposedly “pays for itself” (in the words of a court) through tax increment financing:
Under the [California Redevelopment…
According to the Daily Reporter (Wisconsin), that is. If it’s on the internet, it must be true, right?
Activists want U.S. Supreme Court to rule on eminent domain case summarizes the background in City of Milwaukee Post No. 2874 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States v. Redevelopment Agency of the City of Milwaukee…
Appellate courts issue opinions and orders to decide cases. The opinions and orders in many cases get “published,” meaning that they end up in the bound reporters (the U.S., Federal, Federal Supplement, the official state reports, and in West’s Regional Reports, for example) and become precedential and set forth a rule of law governing future…
The first line of this opinion issued today by the Georgia Supreme Court got us all excited:
The trial court dismissed this condemnation case for lack of prosecution pursuant to OCGA § 9-2-60 (b).
Windsor f/k/a Bank v. City of Atlanta, No. S10A0102 (May 17, 2010). Was it a case where a condemnor sat…
On June 1, 2010, starting at 2:00 p.m. ET, the New York Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in Kaur v. New York State Urban Development Corp. In that case, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division (First Department) struck down the attempted taking of land north of Columbia University in New York…
After Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), many state and local governments adopted measures designed to limit exercises of the power of eminent domain. Some jurisdictions went for substantive limits. For example, Nebraska adopted a statute prohibiting takings that are “primarily” for economic development. Other jurisdictions took the procedural route…
