We’re looking forward to a good crowd at the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, when we shall converge on Charleston, SC, January 25-27, 2018. We’ve received word that our main conference hotel, the Francis Marion, has sold out.
But if you haven’t reserved your space yet, don’t despair. The
Update: our colleague Bryan Wenter has his take on one of the cases denied review here (“U.S. Supreme Court Again Declines to Consider Important Property Rights Issue Regarding the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine“) (“Because the current composition of the U.S. Supreme Court leans ideologically conservative by any traditional measure and
We’ve been receiving a lot of visits lately from folks looking for information on inverse condemnation liability after the recent Northern California wildfires, and the flooding in Houston. In addition to the news stories (see SF Chronicle wildfire story here, and the Texas Tribune flood story here) which we’ve already posted, here are
Update: Forbes is covering this story, here: Nick Sibilla, “Landowner’s Bill Of Rights Are Not ‘Suggested Guidelines,’ Georgia Supreme Court Rules“
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Here’s a decision which we’ve been waiting for in a case we’ve been following since it was decided in the intermediate appellate court, involving Georgia’s “landowner bill
Here are the final two amici briefs in in Jarreau v. South LaFourche Levee District, No. 17-163 (cert. petition filed July 31, 2017), the case asking the Court to consider whether a property owner whose business is destroyed due to an exercise of eminent domain is entitled to just compensation for business losses under the
Okay, we get it: the text of a statute is the text, and it says what it says. And Virginia’s “buyback” statute — which says that if a condemning agency hasn’t started the project for which property was condemned within 20 years, the agency must reconvey it to the owner upon demand — dictates that
Here’s the Reply Brief and Brief in Opposition in Jarreau v. South LaFourche Levee District, No. 17-163 (cert. petition filed July 31, 2017), the case asking the Court to consider whether a property owner whose business is destroyed due to an exercise of eminent domain is entitled to just compensation for business losses.
The
Here’s one we’ve been meaning to post for a while because it is on one our favorite (sub)topics: attorneys’ fees in eminent domain. Indeed, it is about what we consider a very interesting subtopic of the subtopic, the question of whether an owner can recover attorneys’ fees for the efforts expended in recovering attorneys’ fees
The complete agenda and faculty list has now been posted on the ALI-CLE website, and early registration is open! Go now and reserve your spot.
We paid a visit to Charleston recently, the venue for our January 2018 conference, to scout it out. We can report that we’re going to have a great time
University of Hawaii Law School Professor David Callies last night was presented with William and Mary Law School’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize which is “presented annually to a scholar, practitioner or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental importance of property rights.”
As W&M notes about Professor Callies, a “prolific scholar whose work explores land use