Things moving quickly: remember way back when — in April, was it? — when a Connecticut lounge owner sued a mayor and the governor, asserting that a shut-down order was a taking?
Well, the court recently denied the plaintiffs’ request for a temporary restraining order.
There’s nothing in the Ruling about the takings
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Here’s what we’re reading today as we enter a long weekend (who can tell?):
Our shut-in time has got us to thinking.
We’re all environmentalists now. This is the precautionary principle writ large. In a way, this is only part of a greater problem.
Welcome to the Twitterverse. We now have access to a vast amount of data — very often on a granular level — and this moves
Last Friday, we had the good fortune to moderate a debate between two scholars — F.E. Guerra-Pujol and Ilya Somin — on the question of takings and emergencies (“COVID-19 & Property Rights: Do Government Actions in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Create Compensable Takings?“). This issue has resulted in a flurry of claims
A development in the “oyster takings” case that we’ve been following as it has worked its way up to the Virginia Supreme court: that court today issued this Order, in which it awarded an appeal by Nansemond River oystermen (and the City of Suffolk’s cross-appeal) who claim that their property was taken when the
Here’s another coronavirus-related complaint asserting a taking.
But unlike other, recently-filed complaints (see here, here, here, here, here, here and here), this one doesn’t object to shut down orders. Instead, it challenges two measures undertaken by local authorities related to the owner/tenant relationship.
To deal with the pandemic, Union