We’re about to get underway with the fall semester at William and Mary Law School, where we’re again teaching an upper-division course, Eminent Domain and Property Rights.
We’ve more than doubled the size of last year’s enrollment, so it looks like the word is getting out. We cover not only eminent domain and
Here’s our Federalist Society blog post on Knick, “After More Than 30 Years, the Supreme Court Reopens the Door To Federal Takings Claims.”
Check it out, takings fans.
Don’t worry, you didn’t miss the U.S. Supreme Court issuing a major eminent domain case. Today’s post is about a decidedly older decision, Danforth v. United States, 308 U.S. 271 (1939).
The reason we’re posting this decision now, eighty years after it was issued, is that a colleague recently passed on a note with
Here is the motion asking the Hawaii Supreme Court for leave to file an amicus curiae brief (and the proposed brief) we filed earlier today in a case we’ve been following.
The question is the applicable statute of limitations for regulatory takings claims under the Hawaii Constitution’s “takings or damagings” clause. The case started
Here’s the amici brief we’re filing today on behalf of the Owners’ Counsel of America, New Jersey property owners subject to natural gas pipeline takings, the Institute for Justice, and the Cato Institute, in support of a cert petition which is challenging the federal courts of appeals which have upheld giving prejudgment possession of property
Land users and dirt lawyers know Dwight Merriam. (And if you don’t, you are not really a land user, are you?)
He’s won landmark cases (has even beaten Yours Truly in one of those cases way back in the day). Written tons of articles and books. Edits Rathkopf. Contributes to Nichols. Mentored multiple generations
Recently, we requested crowdsourcing of this year’s “come to the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain Conference video.” Instead of doing the video ourselves, we asked folks to “please send a short clip of you and/or your colleagues telling us why you think the Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference is the place to be
Details soon. In the meantime, get your earlier registration discount.
There’s a bit of Inception-level dream-within-a-dream stuff in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s opinion in Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. LLC v. Permanent Easement for 7.053 Acres, No. 17-3700 (July 23, 2019), because the court held in takings by a private condemnor exercising the delegated power of eminent domain under the
The Land Use Committee of the ABA’s Section of State and Local Government Law is sponsoring a free (for Section members) informal webinar about the latest in takings law:
Knick Picking Regulatory Takings: Did the Court Right a Wrong, or Wrong a Right?
Friday, July 26 | 2 – 2:30pm ET
Here’s hoping you can