Check this out, a new podcast for your dirt lawyer types to follow, Pendulum Podcast. As it describes itself:
An informative and sometimes irreverent podcast for those interested in eminent domain, right of way land acquisition, or infrastructure development. Topics for discussion frequently include condemnation of real property for public use, just compensation, the
We can’t pretend that we understand everything that is going on in the Supreme Court of India’s recent opinion in Hari Krishna Mandir Trust v. State of Maharashtra, No. 2013-6156 (Aug. 7, 2020) (but when has that ever stopped us before?), but after reviewing the decision, we thought we would post it because of
Check this out, a newly-published article on takings by two eminent Florida takings practitioners, Alicia Gonzalez & Susan L. Trevarthen, Deciding Where to Take Your Takings Case Post-Knick, 49 Stetson L. Rev. 539 (2020).
If the title isn’t enough to grab your interest, here’s the description in the Introduction,
Post-Knick,both plaintiffs
California law has decriminalized weed. Local governments, however, may regulate the use, sale, possession, and other things (like it can regulate other perfectly legal things). You know, police power kind of regulation.
Under that latter authority, the County of Santa Cruz adopted an ordinance that prohibits a medical weed facility from growing more than 99
The Louisiana Court of Appeal’s opinion in Lowenburg v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, No. 2019-CA-0524 (July 29, 2020) is long (54 pages) and detailed. But for those of you interested in inverse condemnation liability stemming from the impacts on property owners from public construction projects, this is your case.
This consolidated
There’s a lot going on in the Michigan Supreme Court’s opinion in Mays v. Governor, No. 157335 (July 29, 2020). After all, the case involves claims for personal and property damages resulting from the Flint (Michigan) water crisis. That’s an issue we’ve been following that has also grabbed national headlines.
But if you
Here’s the cert petition that we’ve been waiting to drop in a case we’ve been following. Last we checked in, the Ninth Circuit (with concurral) had denied en banc review, over a dissental.
In Cedar Point Nursery v. Shiroma, 923 F.3d 524 (May 8, 2019), a 2-1 panel of the Ninth Circuit
This is a case about trees. The County highway maintenance department entered the plaintiffs’ rural undeveloped land (with permission) to cut and remove certain trees, but then went to the wrong place and cut the wrong trees.
The plaintiffs wanted compensation for the trees, measured as the cost to replace the trees. The County offered
by David Lee Callies
Coming soon (August), a new book from lawprof David Callies on what might be our favorite subject, regulatory takings.
We had a chance to review the proofs, and we highly recommend this one for your bookshelf. We’ll bring you more once published. But for now, you can reserve your copy here
Our Louisiana friends have a great word — lagniappe — that we’re not sure we understand precisely, but to us has always meant that little something extra. As Mark Twain wrote, “[i]t is the equivalent of the thirteenth roll in a ‘baker’s dozen.’ It is something thrown in, gratis, for good measure.” As far as
