As we noted here, this year’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference honoring Hernando de Soto will to be held in The Hague, Netherlands, at the International Court of Justice on October 19-21, 2016.
To push out word, the Owners’ Counsel of America kindly produced a press release announcing our participation in two of the panel discussions, “
Do you really need an excuse to visit Las Vegas in the interregnum between its brutally hot summers and the winter high season? Probably not.
But if so, here’s your opportunity. Plus, you can earn CLE credit.
CLE International is putting on “Eminent Domain 2016: Current and Emerging Issues for Litigators” at Caesar’s
Check this out, a follow-up to our earlier post about the Texas Supreme Court opinion in which the property owner pushed back against a taking of a part of his ranch by a water district by forming his own water district, thus creating a situation where one governmental entity was trying to take another governmental
Entry statutes are in the news lately. As we reported here for example, the California Supreme Court recently saved California’s entry statute from unconstitutionality by implying a requirement for a jury trial (and other eminent domain protections) when the entries which the condemnor seeks to undertake constitute takings.
In that case, the party seeking entry
In a case we’ve been following in which the County of Kauai is condemning several Hanalei-area parcels to expand an adjacent public beach park, the Hawaii Supreme Court has accepted certiorari and agreed to review these three questions:
QUESTION NO. 1.: Must two parcels physically abut in order for the jury to consider whether they
This just in, in a case we’ve been following closely.
In City of Perris v. Stemper, No. S2133468 (Aug. 15, 2016), the California Supreme Court held that the judge, and not the jury, determines the validity of a dedication which a condemnor asserts it would impose to get the condemned property “for free”
As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the final agenda for the 2016 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference has been released. Here’s the complete conference brochure, which has all the details, including registration information.
This is the annual program, sponsored by the William and Mary Law School, in which there’s a day-long discussion of
A short one from the Georgia Court of Appeals.
In Summerour v. City of Marietta, No. A16A0640 (July 8, 2016), the city condemned a grocery store for a recreation center. After multiple attempts to contact the property owner and multiple offers of compensation, the city and the owner finally began the negotiation process, during
We’re experiencing the madness that is the ABA Annual Meeting — this time in San Francisco — hanging with colleagues from the State and Local Government Law Section (where we’re slated to be the Chair-Elect this year), and at the Council of Appellate Lawyers. These meetings are a lot of … meetings .. but there’s
In City of Missoula v Mountain Water Co., No. DA-15-0365 (Aug. 2, 2016), a sharply divided Montana Supreme Court upheld the City of Missoula’s exercise of eminent domain to take a private water system. We’ve been following the case (see our oral argument notes here). The court’s majority concluded that the