Earlier this week, we spoke to Howard Mansfield, author of the recently-published book “The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down – Our Belief in Property and the Cost of That Belief.”
His book is about property, property rights, and how these ideas are processed by the American psyche. But instead of
Here’s the Petition for Review we’ve been waiting to drop since last week’s ruling by a California Court of Appeal declining to review the California PUC’s decision to turn down the electric company’s request for a rate increase to cover the compensation and damages that it must pay as the result of a southern California
They’re going back, to reargue the case with a full contingent of justices. In the January oral argument calendar published yesterday, the Supreme Court gave us the date and time:
Wednesday, January 16, 2019, at 10:00 a.m.
We will be there, and will bring you our thoughts.
Reading the fact section of the Federal Circuit’s recent opinion in Katzin v. United States, No. 16-2636 (Nov. 19, 2018), will make your eyes glaze over. It’s all about some property on an island near Puerto Rico, and is full of maps, diagrams, history, and even a photo of some “Keep Out” signs the
Get ready. In this and upcoming posts, we’re going to be featuring the items on our agenda for the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 24-26, 2019, in sunny Palm Springs, California.
ALI-CLE has released the brochure, which those of you on the mailing list should have received —
In the middle of the terrible news from the latest wildfires to hit California comes this order from the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, declining to issue a writ to review the California Public Utilities Commission’s rejection of SDG&E’s request for a rate increase to cover the costs of settling inverse condemnation claims
Retroactive continuity — or “retconning” — is, according to that authoritative source Wikipedia, a “literary device in which established facts in a fictional work are adjusted, ignored, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which breaks continuity.”
For example, compare the real-world explanation for why the 1960’s Star Trek show’s Klingons didn’t have
As we guessed immediately after arguments, today in this order the Supreme Court has set the Knick v. Township of Scott case for supplemental briefing, and reargument.
Here’s the full text of the order:
This case is restored to the calendar for reargument. The parties and the Solicitor General are directed to file letter
Here’s the amici brief filed late last week on behalf of a lot of us (me included, check it out) in the MR-GO case we’ve been following closely ever since it was filed in the Court of Federal Claims.
That court concluded the Corps of Engineers built MR-GO (the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet) shipping channel, essentially
Would you pay, say $10 for an undeveloped Maui beachfront parcel that is zoned for hotel and residential purposes, but currently is not developable because the County in the past wanted to condemn the land and turn it into a public park (but then ran out of money)?
In furtherance of its acquisition plan, the