Two years ago, Owners’ Counsel of America endowed a scholarship in the name of its founder, property rights advocate and trial lawyer Toby Prince Brigham (1934-2021). The scholarship is for a second- or third- year law student to attend the annual three-day ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference (the upcoming Conference will be
Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), please join us for ALI-CLE’s web program, “How Did Property Rights Fare at the Supreme Court? What Happened in the 2022 Term and What’s Next.”
Here’s the course description:
This has been a blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court term for property
(Tip for applicants: understanding the symbology of the
Law School’s logo will show you know the score.)
Here’s your chance to teach Property and Land Use in what might be most interesting venue on Planet Earth for those subjects: the University of Hawaii School of Law has put out a call for applications for
The two-plus years under the declared Co-19 emergency surely have given Hawaii’s executive-branch officials a clear vision of how much easier they could get their agendas accomplished without all that pesky democracy.
Hawaii’s Sweeping Emergency Management Act: Governor is the “Sole Judge”
Hawaii’s Emergency Management Act gives state and county executives broad and nearly unreviewable
On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), please join us for ALI-CLE’s web program, “How Did Property Rights Fare at the Supreme Court? What Happened in the 2022 Term and What’s Next.”
Here’s the course description:
This has been a blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court term for property law
Here’s what we’re reading this Tuesday:
Missed our law firm colleagues Jeff McCoy, Damien Schiff, and Christina Martin when they were live, talking about their SCOTUS wins in Wilkins v. United States (is the statute of limitations in federal Quiet Title Act cases a jurisdictional bar?), Sackett v. E.P.A. (scope of Clean Water Act wetlands jurisdiction), and Tyler v. Hennepin County
Want to find out what the experts — including arguing counsel for the property owners, our law firm colleague Damien Schiff — think about the Supreme Court’s recent Clean Water Act decision, Sackett v. EPA. And most importantly, what is next?
You are in luck: on Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 1:00 – 2:15pm
Tyler v. Hennepin County wasn’t the only property rights opinion issued by the Supreme Court in one of my law firm’s cases last week.
There’s this one, which we’ve been waiting a lot longer to drop (oral arguments were held on the first day of the Court’s term back in October), Sackett v. Envt’l
Shands Key, with the City of Marathon in the background
This just in: in Shands v. City of Marathon, No. 3D21-1987 (May 3, 2023), Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals held that the city’s downzoning the property (Shands Key, shown above in an exhibit from the Key West trial we participated in in June