During. Good crowd.
Before. Note the power strips on the tables.
Well played, Caesar’s, well played.
To supplement your written materials, here are the decisions and other materials which we spoke about this morning at the CLE International Eminent Domain seminar:
The speed of the internet: we were all set to post our thoughts on the opinion of the Court of Appeals of Indiana in Bellwether Properties, LLC v. Duke Energy Indiana, LLC, No. 53A-04-1511-CR-1880 (Sep. 13, 2016), when the Indiana Lawyer beat us to the punch with “COA: Discovery rule applies in inverse
This one reminds us of a recent decision by the Texas Court of Appeals, because the Mississippi Supreme Court, like the Texas court, concluded that an inverse condemnation plaintiff lacked standing because it didn’t own the property at the time of the taking. Russell Real Property Services, LLC v. Mississippi, No. 2015-CA-01306-SCT (Sep. 15
A new article worth your time by economist William Wade, “Theory and Misuse of Just Compensation for Income-Producing Property in Federal Courts: A View From Above the Forest,” 46 Tex. Envtl L. J. 139 (2016).
Bill is familiar to regular readers, as he has been a frequent guest poster, and a prolific
As we noted here, this year’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference honoring Hernando de Soto will to be held in The Hague, Netherlands, at the International Court of Justice on October 19-21, 2016.
To push out word, the Owners’ Counsel of America kindly produced a press release announcing our participation in two of the panel discussions, “
Denials of rehearing and motions for en banc review from a state intermediate appellate court generally do not catch our attention. But Ganson v. City of Marathon, No. 3D12-777 (Sep. 14, 2016) is the exception to that rule.
This is a long-running regulatory takings dispute between property owners in the Florida Keys — who
Do you really need an excuse to visit Las Vegas in the interregnum between its brutally hot summers and the winter high season? Probably not.
But if so, here’s your opportunity. Plus, you can earn CLE credit.
CLE International is putting on “Eminent Domain 2016: Current and Emerging Issues for Litigators” at Caesar’s
Here’s a newly published article from University of Virginia lawprof Maureen Brady, “Property’s Ceiling: State Courts and the Expansion of Takings Clause Property” 102 U. Va. L. Rev. 1167 (2916). We think it is worth your time reading.
What particularly caught our eyes about the article was its focus on municipal “regrade”
A long title for today’s post, but there’s a lot that needs to be captured.
In Texas Dep’t of Transportation v. Hankins, No. 01-14-00299-CV (Aug. 31, 2016), the Texas Court of Appeals threw out a jury verdict in an inverse condemnation case, concluding (sua sponte) that the property owner plaintiff didn’t have
On one hand, we don’t care for attorneys’ fee fights. They are satellite litigation, almost always after the merits have been resolved. They can get tedious (does anyone like going over years of timesheets and billing records, and haggling over whether a motion should have reasonably taken 1 hour or 5 hours?), many judges don’t