Here’s the cert petition, recently filed in a case we’ve been following from South Dakota.
The statute at issue — the federal Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Act — isn’t one that gets a lot of attention, particularly at the Supreme Court. But it’s an area that is ripe for review. The
Mark your calendars, plan to come: Detroit, April 19-20, 2018. For what is perhaps the best deal in CLE (tuition as low as $400), the 32d Annual Land Use Institute, sponsored by our section of the ABA, the Section of State and Local Government Law.
The venue is the
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following since its inception, Brott v. United States, the case which asks the deceptively simple question of whether property owners who sue the federal government for a taking are entitled to both an Article III forum, and to have the issues determined by a jury.
Here’s the cert petition, filed today by SCOTUS superstar Paul Clement in a case we’ve been following out of Northern California.
Here are the Questions Presented:
This case involves a stretch of private property along the California coast known as Martins Beach. The California Coastal Commission and the County of San Mateo want Martins
Update: thanks to Daniel Lehmann for keying us in to this case, now being reviewed by the Supreme Court, involving the foundational question of whether title to Equal Footing Doctrine submerged lands is a question of state or federal law. Scheduled for the Court’s 2/16/2018 conference.
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In our experience, rationality
Here is the video of last Friday’s oral arguments in a case we’ve been following, in which the owners of a mobile home park successfully challenged a California municipality’s rent control ordinance as a taking.
In Colony Cover Properties v. City of Carson, a U.S. District Court for the Central District of California jury
In Sierra Palms Homeowners Ass’n v. Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Const. Auth., No. B275241 (Jan. 29, 2018), a condomimium homeowners’ association sued a municipal transit authority and its private-entity partner, claiming that they built and maintained the Gold Line railway in such a way that it interfered with the association’s quiet enjoyment
We’re on our third day at the 2018 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Conference in Charleston, SC, and as usual, we’re having our headline presentations by takings guru Michael Berger (pictured above), who is updating us on the most interesting and important cases of the past year, and Jim Burling, who will
This morning, at the 2018 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, we announced the dates and venue for the 2019 Conference: Palm Springs, California.
The conference hotel is the Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel, which has the advantage of being a resort facility, but right in town (so you
Here’s a year-end summary of “Notable Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation Cases from 2017 (and one from 2018)” from Wendel Rosen Black & Dean’s Money and Dirt blog.
Check it out.