You listened live. Or you missed that, and listened to the recording. Or, you preferred to review what others thought of the arguments. Now you can read it yourself.
Here’s the transcript of Monday’s oral arguments in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107, the case in which the Supreme Court
In which we join the Pendulum Land Podcast (again, thank you hosts!) to talk about the Virginia Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Johnson v. City of Suffolk, the case we label the “oyster takings” case in which Hampton Roads oystermen claimed that their property was taken when the City of Suffolk and the Sanitation
Here are links to the summaries and analysis of yesterday’s oral arguments in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107, the case asking whether California’s forbidding of agricultural property owners from keeping out union organizers is a taking:
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Here’s the recorded arguments.
Check out the unusual facts in the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals’ opinion in Scherich v. Wheeling Creed Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Comm’n, No. 19-1065 (Mar. 15, 2021).
This started back in 1990, when the Commission instituted a condemnation action to take two parcels belonging to the Scheriches for a dam, as
Those statutes that require that if a condemnor doesn’t use property taken, that it must try and sell it back to the (former) owner seem like a pretty good thing. You have your property taken, but if the taker doesn’t actually need it or use it, hey you can get it back. Feels pretty good.
For you original MTV folks
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following for a while (even since before the last time it went up to the Court). See this post (“The Chicago Way: City Taking Non-Blighted Property For Economic Development Was Not Pretextual Because…Studies“) and this one (“Illinois App: We
When we think “New Mexico,” we imagine scenes like this. Endless sky, seemingly infinite open roads, high desert … you know, “the West.”
But after reading the New Mexico Supreme Court’s opinion in City of Albuquerque v. SMP Properties, LLC, No. S-1-SC-37343 (Feb. 25, 2021), we’re going to think “inverse condemnation.” (Yeah, that may
We’ve been meaning to post this one, a short per curiam opinion from the Ohio Supreme Court, for some time. Not because it deals with earth-shattering substantive eminent domain issues, but because it highlights a somewhat niche, but pretty important, procedural issue.
Say an owner challenges the take, either by way of a public use
We were hoping for better news in a case we’ve been following in its various forms for what seems like forever. But today, the U.S. Supreme Court in this order declined to issue a writ of certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Bridge Aina Lea, LLC v. Hawaii Land Use Comm’n, No.