The roof collapsed and damaged the building. In the view of the City, that created an immediate danger so it demolished it. But the building owners had plans to fix it up, and claimed the demolition was a taking. Trial court said no, the Connecticut Appellate Court affirmed:
On the basis of our review
Here’s the long story short in Metropolitan Theater, LLC v. YES Prep Public Schools, Inc, No. 01-15-00480 (Feb. 25, 2016), a decision from the Texas Court of Appeals:
The theater sued “YES Prep Public Schools” because (allegedly), the school screwed up the theater’s agreement to buy a parcel of land from a third party.
As we noted here (“Latest On The Latest Hawaii Takings Case: Unconstitutional Conditions, Statutes Of Limitations, And Vested Rights“) the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii is considering a regulatory takings case (removed by the defendant State of Hawaii from Hawaii courts) involving a stalled development on the Big Island.
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Let’s say that you didn’t know much about regulatory takings, or municipal employment and Fair Labor Standards law (in our case, the latter would most certainly be correct). And let’s say you were asked to predict how the plaintiff would fare with a claim that the city’s regulatory regime for taxicabs was so oppressive that
All of the drama playing out in the North Carolina Supreme Court yesterday as the court heard oral arguments in its review of Kirby v North Carolina Dep’t of Transportation, No. COA14-184 (Feb. 17, 2015) came down — as they often do in these things — to a single question from the bench, and
Hawaii has recently become the second jurisdiction to create an Environmental Court, a topic which we’re written about earlier (“What You Need To Know About Hawaii’s New Environmental Court“). We’ve asked whether Hawaii also might need a Property Rights Court, too.
Well, it looks like the good people of Guahan (“Guam”
Those of us who represent private parties in litigation know that when we appeal and we want to suspend enforcement of the judgment, we can do so if we post a supersedeas bond (aka appeal bond). In other words, if we put our money where our mouths are. We also know that some parties —
Here’s what we’re reading today:
Here’s the latest on a takings case that is winding its way through the U.S. District Court in Honolulu. Yes, you read that right: a takings case being litigated in federal court.
Intrigued? Read on.
We’ve covered this case and the related state court litigation several times here before, so this isn’t entirely unfamiliar ground. This
We’ve posted a lot lately reporting on the 2016 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, recently held in Austin. We have a couple of more posts for you before we turn to other things. Here is the first, a run-down of the blogs of faculty members, and others we were in the