A piece from noted eminent domain scholar Professor Ilya Somin, “Beware misguided ‘mainstream’ legal thought – ‘Kelo v. City of New London’ in perspective” at the Washington Post.
The thrust of his piece (and a forthcoming law review article) is that Kelo isn’t some nutty decision, but was the product of “mainstream legal
Several years ago, William & Mary Law School’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference departed its usual Williamsburg, Virginia venue and held the event in Beijing. Holding the conference there allowed U.S. legal scholars and property law practitioners to share ideas and compare our ways with our PRC counterparts. The event was a great success.
Now
The complete agenda, faculty list, and other information (including registration and early and group discounts) for the 2017 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference is now up and ready.
The conference will be held January 26-28, 2017, at the Westin San Diego. Please consider joining us for the premier national conference on
Recall that in the wake of the overwhelmingly negative reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London, at least one of the Connecticut Supreme Court justices whose previous ruling was upheld, expressed his regrets. Others have made similar remarks.
Well, here may be a chance for the Connecticut Supreme Court
We all know that the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Kelo is lousy. See “Kelo at 10: Still Stinks, And A Decade Has Not Lessened The Odor.”
Or at least most of us know that. But other than crying in our beer, or trying to get the case overruled (efforts continue!)
Tomorrow, Thursday, October 6, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. at Aliiolani Hale, the Hawaii Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case we’ve been following (we filed an amicus brief in the case, supporting the property owner on the first Question Presented), County of Kauai v. Hanalei River Holdings, Ltd., No. SCWC-14-0000828.
The
We’ve teased some of the details on the 2017 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation and Condemnation 101 Conference, to be held at the Westin San Diego, January 26-28, 2017, but here are the details you’ve been waiting for.
This is the “big one,” our annual 3-day festival of all things eminent domain
There’s a lot of pages in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s opinion (and two concurring opinions) in Robinson Township v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, No. J-34A-2016 (Sep. 28, 2016), and the good stuff from the headline starts on page 78. But to understand the case, you need a bit of background.
Pennsylvania has been one of
During. Good crowd.
Before. Note the power strips on the tables.
Well played, Caesar’s, well played.
To supplement your written materials, here are the decisions and other materials which we spoke about this morning at the CLE International Eminent Domain seminar:
This one is kind of Colorado specific, but there are lessons here for the rest of us.
In Colorado Dep’t of Transportation v. Amerco Real Estate Co., No. 16SA75 (Sep. 26, 2016), the Colorado Supreme Court prohibited the DOT from taking Amerco’s land (leased to U-Haul) for a highway project because the transportation
