Environmental law

With the ongoing wildfire dramas ongoing across California, several of you have asked us to collect the posts we have done about inverse condemnation liability in one place. So here you go:

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We’ve been following the ongoing efforts to settle the Clean Water Act case involving the County of Maui with some amusement. 

Why, you ask? Part of it is that we like municipal law. (Perhaps sad, but true.) But we’re amused mostly because the case’s current posture illustrates the dual principles of “be careful what you

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Here is a transcript of the remarks I delivered today at the 2019 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. I was honored to join lawprof Henry Smith and Florida Supreme Court Justice (ret.) Ken Bell (who authored the Florida court’s opinion in Stop the Beach Renourishment which was challenged in SCOTUS as a “judicial taking”) to speak

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You overwhelmingly asked for Nashville, and we’re bringing it to you!

Get ready, and hold your place now: here’s the list of programs and speakers for the 36th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, to be held at the Downtown Nashville Hilton, January 23,- 25, 2020. Two-and-a-half days with top-notch national

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The final agenda and faculty list will soon be officially published, but we wanted to give you a preview of what is in store at the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 23-25, 2020, at the Nashville Hilton (downtown, just a few steps away from everything that Nashville has to offer). 

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You know where this is. 

Here’s the cert petition filed recently in a case we’ve been tracking. (See also this guest post by economist Bill Wade about that case.)

As the above photo tells you, this one is going into what may the last truly unexplored frontier of regulatory takings law, the details

Here’s what we are reading this Tuesday:

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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