Eminent Domain | Condemnation

Here’s the Brief in Opposition, in Like v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., LLC, No. 18-1206 (Apr. 17, 2019), the case which we’ve been following (and in which we filed this amici brief). 

This is the case in which landowners are challenging the district court’s issuance of an injunction in a Natural

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Here are the links from today’s two sessions (the first, federal water issues impacting local land use; the second, Bringing and Defending a Takings Case):

Here’s the cert petition filed recently in yet another case (seeking review of the Eleventh Circuit’s opinion) which challenges a federal court issuing an injunction in a Natural Gas Act taking allowing a private condemnor to obtain immediate possession of the land being condemned, even though the NGA does not delegate to pipeline condemnors

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Pop quiz: Quick! Name the races in the Triple Crown of horse racing… There’s the Kentucky Derby (check) … the Belmont Stakes (check) … and … oh yeah, the Preakness Stakes. We always almost forget that last one. 

But the City of Baltimore sure hasn’t. Because the home city of Pimlico racetrack and the aforementioned

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Last week, author Howard Mansfield joined us at the William and Mary Law School for two sessions about his recently-published book, “The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down – Our Belief in Property and the Cost of That Belief.”  His book is about property, property rights, and what he has discovered about

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Come join us at the 33rd Annual Land Use Institute, in Baltimore, Maryland, April 11-12, 2019.

As the brochure notes:

This Annual Land Use Institute program is designed for attorneys, professional planners, and government officials involved in land use planning, zoning, permitting, property development, conservation and environmental protection, and related litigation. It not only

Here’s the cert petition we’ve been waiting to drop.

If you follow this blog, you know we are all over the issue of the quick-take-by-injunction scheme that private condemnors have cooked up, and which a majority of federal courts go along with. 

Here’s the issue: can a private condemnor exercising the delegated eminent domain power

Our colleague Dwight Merriam was recently interviewed on the radio about issues surrounding the existing and proposed wall and fence along portions of the southern border.

If you want to get educated on this issue, here’s the quick way to do it.

Dwight discusses funding, emergency powers, the Declaration of Taking Act, and other topics.