From Reno, Nevada colleague Steve Silva, comes this contribution to our growing collection of Knick/Williamson County-related memes.
Congratulations if you get this without having to do research. If so, you are a True Takings Nerd (and a nerd generally).
For those of you who are not quite getting it, here is
Last week, the 15th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference saw the gathering of legal scholars, judges, lawyers, and law students at the William and Mary Law School to award the B-K Property Rights Prize to Cardozo lawprof Stewart Sterk, followed by a day-long conference focusing on Professor Sterk’s work and the latest developments in property
For the six-hour-plus roundtrip from Williamsburg to DC for last week’s SCOTUS oral arguments in Knick v. Township of Scott, the only assignment our class had — the ticket for the van ride, so to speak — was that each student was required to make two contributions to our day’s playlist. Otherwise, we’d be
Seeking A Cause of Action
It has been just under a century since the U.S. Supreme Court first recognized (in the modern era, that is) the regulatory takings doctrine. You might think that the intervening decades would be enough time to allow the Justices, collectively, to have figured out what a cause of action looks like.
Just out of the Knick arguments. Full report to come later. But for now, these thoughts:
College of Surgeons – D.O.A. I think there’s a consensus to overrule the case to the extent it allows municipalities to remove takings cases to federal court.
San Remo – On life support. I think also that there may
I’m not going to do an in-depth preview of tomorrow’s Supreme Court oral arguments in Knick v. Township of Scott, No. 17-647 for several reasons.
First, a lot of others have summarized the issues already, far better than I can. See the list below.
Second, I filed an amicus brief in the case in
Our colleague and co-planning chair Joe Waldo was in town yesterday, so we walked through historic Williamsburg, Virginia (cradle of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights), to invite you to join us for the 36th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference (January 24-26, 2019, in Palm Springs, California).
One more lesson on the speed of the interwebs: we were all set to take a deep dive into the California Court of Appeal’s opinion in an inverse condemnation case, Bottini v. City of San Diego, No. D071670 (Sep. 18, 2018), when our colleague Brad Kuhn analyzed the case at his California Eminent
Come join us for one of the best conferences on property rights and property law at the 2018 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, October 4-5, 2018 at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.
We’ve attended and presented at the Conference in past years, including when it went international in
Here’s the cert petition, filed yesterday, in a case we’ve been following closely. Here’s our short summary of the case, written up when it was ready for argument in the Hawaii Supreme Court. That court’s ruling against the property owner added to the the lower court split on the issue of whether
