Eminent Domain | Condemnation

Go on, read the facts in the California Court of Appeal’s (unpublished) opinion in San Joaquin Regional Transit District v. Superior Court, No. C084755 (Dec. 1, 2020). It’s worth your time, believe us.

After chasing from California a long-standing manufacturing and service business (to Illinois) by instituting condemnation proceedings on the property on which

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We have now wrapped up the coursework portion of the Fall semester at William and Mary Law School, so here’s an after-action report from the two full courses which I taught in a “hybrid” style (some students live, in the classroom; others attending via Zoom live; and still others with the option to attend

Check this out, the Complaint we filed a couple of weeks ago in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, in Grano v. Rappahannock Elec. Coop., No. 3:20-cv-00065-NKM (W.D. Va. Oct. 28, 2020).

It’s not a true “takings” case because the claims for relief are limited to due process and Contract

The docket is pretty crowded today, so we don’t have that much time to digest and summarize the Nebraska Supreme Court’s opinion in Douglas County School Dist. No. 10 v. Tribedo, LLC, No. S-19-986 (Nov. 6, 2020). But we recommend you read it (or at least scan it).

Short story: Tribedo got the better

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Join us next Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 3pm ET (12 noon Pacific) for the free webinar “Shutdowns, Closures, Moratoria, and Bans,” produced by Pacific Legal Foundation and Owners’ Counsel of America.

Along with my colleagues Leslie Fields (Executive Director, OCA), and Jim Burling (PLF), I’ll be talking about the legal foundations for

Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following even before its inception (last semester, our William and Mary class visited the site and witnessed the oyster operation affected – see video above), Johnson v. City of Suffolk.

This morning, the Virginia Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case, and we livestreamed it

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In case you missed any part of it: the recordings of the recent 2020 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference are now available.

Go here for the descriptions of the panels, speakers, and links to the recorded sessions.

This year’s conference, held on October 1-2, opened with the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize being awarded to Professor