Generally, we don’t plug seminars that might compete with our own, but in this case, we made an exception because the faculty for this one consists of three people we could just not go without hearing from.
On Thursday, July 11, 2013, Law Seminars International is sponsoring “Koontz v. St. Johns River Water …
Here’s some of the stories and commentary we’ve been reading about the Supreme Court’s decision in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, No. 11-1147 (June 25, 2013:
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Do regulations that exist at the time that a property owner purchases his land negate any expectation that he will be able to use the land productively? Not according to this amici brief, filed today in Mehaffy v. United States, No. 12-1416 (cert. petititon filed June 5, 2013).
The cert petition asks the…
Some things are constant: the speed of light, the sun rises in the east. And Professor John Echeverria, the well-known environmental lawprof, has never met a taking he’s liked.
Even if that means disagreeing in one takings case with Justice Ginsburg writing for a unanimous Supreme Court, the unanimous Court in another takings…
Well, the hammer finally dropped and the Supreme Court today issued its opinion in Koontz v. St Johns River Water Management District, No. 11-1447 (June 25, 2013). The opinion comes out on the next-to-last day of the Term presumably because — unlike the earlier two takings cases — Koontz was not unanimous, but was…
Today, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Koontz v. St Johns River Water Mgmt District, No. 11-1447 (cert. granted Oct. 5, 2012), holding that the nexus and proportionality standards apply to government demands for money as well as land, and that a property owner need not accept the permit in order to challenge…
Mostly mising from all the anticipation over the Supreme Court’s “blockbuster” cases on same sex marriage, voting rights, and affirmative action, is the Court’s third takings decision of the term, Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District. Professor Ilya Somin primes the pump in this post, “Still Waiting for the Koontz Decision…
Mark your calendars: On August 14-16, 2013, ALI-CLE is putting on the annual Land Use Institute. It’s in San Francisco, which is very convenient for those who may be attending the ABA Annual Meeting the week earlier. A good excuse to stay longer.
The Land Use Institute, now in its 29th year, is designed…
What’s the difference, if any, between a “cemetery” and a burial, and are burials in cemeteries exempt from archaeological review? That’s one of the issues the Hawaii Supreme Court agreed to review in this Order, by which it accepted the DLNR’s application for a writ of certiorari.
Mark your calendars for July 12, 2013 for our CLE teleconference on “Supreme Court Takings: A First Look at Koontz and Horne,” sponsored by the ABA’s State and Local Government Law Section. We’ll start at 1:00 pm ET (Noon CT, 11:00 am MT, 10:00 am PT, 7:00 am HT). Here’s the program…
