For the last week, the blog has been a bit idle. That hasn’t been because we’re slowing down, but was mostly the result of our blog platform being worked on behind-the-scenes, which knocked a lot of the hosted blogs offline, this one included. But things look good now, so here we are.
We were also
Here’s a recently-filed cert petition in a pipeline case. This one asks whether an agency — here, FERC — has primary administrative jurisdiction over a facial challenge to Congress’ delegation of federal eminent domain authority to a private party.
Here are the Questions Presented:
Whether a facial challenge to Congress’s delegation of eminent domain power
We spoke on the second panel of the day at the 2022 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School. The subject of our panel — which included Professors David Callies, Tim Mulvaney, and Dave Owen — was “Reshaping the Framework Protecting Property Under the Roberts Court.“
Here’s a rough
One last reminder that there’ still time to register for the upcoming Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia, September 29-30, 2022. If you can’t make it to the historic campus, there’s an option to attend remotely.
In our opinion, the Conference is the best of its kind
Be sure to check out Anthony Alderman (MRICS, SR/WA, CRE, Senior Managing Director at Cushman & Wakefield), who guests on Episode 98 of Clint Schumacher’s Eminent Domain Podcast, “Eminent Domain in Pop Culture.”
You know we are going to really appreciate an episode “about depictions of eminent domain in popular culture – often
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
There’s still space for you to join us — preferably in-person, but remotely if that is not possible for you — at the 19th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, September 29-30, 2022, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg.
The American Law Institute was kind enough to post a notice about the Conference
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following. The U.S. Court of Appeals recently heard oral arguments in a case where a private Natural Gas Act condemnor (the Sabal Trail pipeline) exercised the delegated federal power of eminent domain to take the property of a Florida owner.
As we reported here
Is there a more appropriate place at which to study property rights and dirt law than William and Mary Law School? After all, it is a stone’s throw from Jamestown, the place where there’s a good argument the concept of property law and property rights first took hold in the New World. As
The International Right of Way Association‘s Real Estate Law Committee produces twice-a-year reports “which contain summaries of eminent domain decisions and legislation within the United States.”
And what is really nice is that they make the report available.
We’re posting it here because we’re one of the co-authors. Hat tip to our co-authors