Here’s one of the decisions we’ve been meaning to post for a while.
In Schmude Oil Co., Inc. v. Dep’t of Envt’l Quality, No. 313475 (July 1, 2014), the Michigan Court of Appeals held that there was no wipeout per se taking, nor was there a Penn Central taking, when the DEQ refused to
Here’s the Verified Complaint in a case recently filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey:
Plaintiffs Jenkinson’s Pavilion, a corporation of the State of New Jersey and Jenkinson’s South, Inc., a corporation of the State of New Jersey, (collectively “Plaintiffs”), bring this action, inter alia, (a) for a declaration as a matter of
Registration is now open for the 2015 Hawaii Land Use Law Conference, to be held in downtown Honolulu on Thursday-Friday, January 15-16, 2015.
This is the bi-annual conference, co-chaired by U. Hawaii lawprof David Callies and land use lawyer Ben Kudo, that brings together the big names in our area of law. In other
We’re tied up today and don’t have time to do any analysis, so we post this without comment: Bowman v. California Coastal Comm’n, No. B243015 (Oct. 23, 2014), wherein the court held:
In Kleiniecke v. Montecito Water District (1983) 147 Cal.App.3d 240, we held it would not be inequitable to apply the doctrine of
To those of you who joined us at the ABA’s Land Use, Planning, and Development Forum, thank you. Here are links to some of the topics I mentioned:
There’s still time to register and attend the upcoming seminar,”Hawaii’s Shoreline and Coastal Law and Regulation.” It’s scheduled for Friday, July 18, 2014, in downtown Honolulu at the YWCA. Here’s the description:
This program will cover recent Hawaii case law, including the recent Hawaii Supreme Court decision regarding identifying the certified shoreline. Now
Here’s what caught our attention today:
No, it’s not Pearl Harbor. But from some of the reactions we’re seeing, you might think the Imperial Japanese Navy was once again anchored off of our fair shores.
But thankfully no, it’s only aerial advertising, one small airplane towing a sign. But the airplane’s sorties have been generating attention like you wouldn’t believe.
Here’s an interesting one from the Iowa Supreme Court, in which the issue is whether the federal Clean Air Act preempts a property owner’s state-law nuisance claim.
In Freeman v. Grain Processing Corp., No. 1309723 (June 13, 2014), the issue was whether property owners could assert trespass and nuisance claims under Iowa law against
We don’t need to tell all you non-New Yorkers that the New York Court of Appeals is the state’s highest appeals court, do we? We watched enough Law and Order to know that what most everywhere else calls a “supreme court” is the “Court of Appeals” in the Empire State.
With that out of the