We usually don’t cover decisions under California’s Environmental Quality Act. You could spend your entire legal career doing these kind of cases, and there are other forums which ably follow CEQA.
But we had to make a mention of the California Court of Appeal’s recent opinion in Preserve Poway v. City of Poway
Here’s what we’re reading today:
Here’s the latest on a takings case that is winding its way through the U.S. District Court in Honolulu. Yes, you read that right: a takings case being litigated in federal court.
Intrigued? Read on.
We’ve covered this case and the related state court litigation several times here before, so this isn’t entirely unfamiliar ground. This
Are you a lawyer and need something to do for the next 6-12 months? Want to make a recommendation to the Department of Land and Natural Resources about whether it should issue a Conservation District Use Permit to the Thirty Meter Telescope project on the top of the Big Island’s Mauna Kea? Want your decision
We’ve posted a lot lately reporting on the 2016 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, recently held in Austin. We have a couple of more posts for you before we turn to other things. Here is the first, a run-down of the blogs of faculty members, and others we were in the
The second day of the 2016 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation conference went as well as the first. Here are some highlights:
Austin, Texas, is where we’re at for the next few days, for the 2016 edition of the American Law Institute-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation conference, now in its 33d year. First time we’re in Austin, however, and our registration numbers are looking very good, and we haven’t had this big a turnout in years.
We know inverse condemnation liability can be triggered by intentional government action. But what about when government doesn’t act?
That was the issue before the Court of Appeals of Maryland in Litz v. Maryland Dep’t of the Environment, No. 23 (Jan. 22, 2016). And when the opinion starts this way, you just know where
A longer one from the California Court of Appeal, but unfortunately, we don’t have the time to digest it in detail. But you really should read Pacific Shores Property Onwers Ass’n v. Dep’t of Fish and Wildlife, No. C070301 (Jan. 20, 2016), in which the court upheld a ruling that the Department of Fish
In a segment called “Are the Courts Crazy?,” (their title, not ours!), Kelii Akina and I chat about the recent decisions in the Thirty Meter Telescope case, the pig hunting as a traditional and customary native Hawaiian practice case, Hawaii’s new Environmental Court, and the challenge to the Hawaiians-only election
