Our upcoming American Law Institute-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Charleston, South Carolina has SOLD OUT our in-person registrations.
We will have a record attendance (with over 100 first-time attendees) and the conference hotel has informed us that we can fit no more people in the meeting rooms. We cannot remember this
Here’s the first post-Murr cert petition (as far as we can tell), in a case we’ve been following. As we wrote in “The First Post-Murr Case? Fourth Circuit: No Taking Because Anti-Development Merger Regulations Actually Make Property Developable,” the Fourth Circuit concluded:
[T]he County’s regulations were run-of-the-mill zoning/land use ordinances, and thus
What to make of this? A blog aimed at condemning authorities, with advice on how to avoid a claim for precondemnation damages. Okay, nothing wrong with that. Condemnors deserve good legal counsel as much as other parties. Indeed, having inexperienced counsel for the condemnor often makes resolving cases harder than it should be
35th Annual Advanced Course
Eminent Domain and
Land Valuation Litigation
Live Program | Video Webcast | Video Webcast Segments
Thursday – Saturday, January 25 – 27, 2018
Francis Marion Hotel | Charleston, SC
Do not miss this popular conference! Intended for all eminent domain and land use practitioners, both experienced and those new to the
A recent report in Honolulu Civil Beat asks the question: “Why Isn’t Honolulu Helping Businesses Hurt By Rail Construction?” (The Civil Beat editorial board asks the same question.)
According to the report:
Two years ago, the Honolulu City Council created a fund to help businesses hurt by construction of the 20-mile long
Here’s the amici brief filed earlier this week in Sammons v. United States, No. 17-795, a case we’ve been following. Here’s the cert petition.
The issue in this case is the same as in two cases already pending in the Supreme Court, the first a patent case argued in December, and the
One word is conspicuously absent from the Federal Circuit’s opinion in Alpine PCS, Inc. v. United States, No. 17-1029 (Jan. 2, 2017): “exhaustion.”
We all know that exhaustion of administrative remedies isn’t usually required before bringing a constitutional takings claim, but make no mistake — despite the absence of the word in the opinion
Back in October, the William and Mary Law School awarded U. Hawaii lawprof David Callies the Brigham-Kanner Prize at a two-day conference in Williamsburg. Our summary of the conference is posted here.
We spoke at the conference, at the first panel entitled “The Future of Land Regulation and a Tribute to David Callies,”
In Cappel v. Nebraska Dep’t of Natural Resources, No. S-16-1037 (Dec. 22, 2017), the Nebraska Supreme Court concluded the Department’s notices to Cappel pursuant to an interstate water compact which closed off his land’s ability to draw surface water from the Republican River for irrigating his crops was neither a physical nor regulatory taking.
The facts in Bellwether Properties, LLC v. Duke Energy Indiana, Inc., No. 53S04-1703-CT-121 (Dec. 20, 2017), are not all that complex and the result is pretty straightforward: the complaint did not show on its face when the plaintiff had knowledge that new rules caused an existing utility easement to expand in size, and