To supplement your written materials for the 2017 Hawaii Land Use Conference, here are the decisions and other materials which we spoke about this morning at the 2017 Hawaii Land Use Conference:
The Sixth Circuit’s opinion in Lilly Investments v. City of Rochester, No. 15-2289 (Jan. 5, 2017) is not slated for publication, but its worth a read anyhow because it involves Williamson County ripeness, and the “final decision” rule. Here’s how the court summarized the case:
This case concerns Louis Leonor’s efforts to open a
You take the uptown subway, the 1 train, destination the Bronx — the IRT for those of you who still refer to New York City’s subway lines that way — and exit at the 103rd Street Station, just before you cross the unofficial border to Harlem. Walking north on Broadway for a couple of
Complete information, including registration, faculty, and agenda, here.
There have been a lot of takings and takings-related decisions coming out of the Court of Federal Claims lately, and we’ve held off on posting them individually. So to start off your New Year, here is a pop quiz.
Your task: guess whether the CFC held there was a taking, or no taking (answers below):
Following up on our post earlier this week with our amicus brief, here are the remainder of the briefs filed in the Federal Circuit in a case in which the government is asking the court to bypass panel hearing and go straight to en banc review of a Court of Federal Claims opinion which
You rails-to-trails and takings mavens all know the drill in those cases: rail easement stops being used for rail, bikers and runners want a recreational path, the federal Surface Transportation Board issues a Notice of Interim Trail Use (they say “interim” because of the fiction that they are just “railbanking” and someday when we want
Heads up for a case to watch being argued next week in the Hawaii Supreme Court.
This is a regulatory takings case that’s been up to the Hawaii appellate courts before (see here). In that opinion, the court of appeals correctly held that a property owner raising a regulatory takings case has no
Schliem v. South Dakota, No. 27557 (Dec. 7, 2016) is the third in a series of condemnation cases issued earlier this month by the South Dakota Supreme Court. The first, South Dakota v. Miller, involved impairment of access resulting from a highway project suffered by an owner whose property was taken for the project.
Registration is now open for the 2017 Hawaii Land Use Conference, presented by the Hawaii State Bar Association and the University of Hawaii Law School, at the downtown Honolulu YWCA’s Fuller Hall on January 19-20, 2017. “This 2 day conference is a must attend for any attorney or professional whose practice involves land use