Update: the court has rescheduled the arguments to June 22, 2023, at 10 a.m.
The Hawaii Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in an important eminent domain case about severance damages for the Honolulu Rail Authority’s condemnation of land in Honolulu for one of its stations (assuming, of course, that the under-construction rail line actually
Missed out on the 2023 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference back in February in Austin, and the legendary “Condemnation 101” track?
Well, here’s your chance to get the knowledge. On May 18, 2023, ALI-CLE is going live with a rebroadcast of that program, including real-time Q & A
Good crowd.
Here are the cases and other materials we spoke about on Friday at the 22d Annual Texas Eminent Domain Conference, in Austin. A big thank you to the Planning Chairs and to our friends at CLE International for the speaking invite.
Come join us on Thursday, April 27, 2023, from 5-7pm, downtown Honolulu, to celebrate the retirement of Professor David L. Callies from the University of Hawaii Law School.
Join U.H. Law School Dean Camille Nelson, Professor Callies’ colleagues, his students (present and former), the Hawaii legal community, and family and friends as we honor
If you are in the Austin area (or anywhere in Texas for that matter), please consider joining us April 13 and 14, 2023 for the 22d Annual Texas Eminent Domain Conference.
Two days of great programming and talking shop, plus a chance to connect and re-connect with friends and colleagues. And, of course, all
As part of the nationwide reaction to Kelo v. New London, Indiana adopted a statute that in some cases requires the condemnor to compensate property owners at not just fair market value, but at 150% of FMV.
As far as we can tell, the Indiana Court of Appeals’ opinion in Guzzo v. Town
Most of the time these days, we’re rooting for cert granted. That comes, naturally, from our work pushing cases and issues up to the Supreme Court, looking to correct lower court errors and in the process make some good law. And that usually entails being on the “petitioner” side of things. Cases like Sackett
Here are the opinions that we spoke about this afternoon at the Land Use Institute on “The Use of Eminent Domain for Redevelopment & Economic Development Projects.”
We were eagerly anticipating 40th American Law Institute-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference. The 2022 Conference in Scottsdale was one of the first meetings where everyone was back in-person (and was a smashing success), but that conference was early in the game so not everyone could or would attend. But in the past
“…When the big man comes a knockin, he is there to represent the humble little farmer with his farm law arguments.
The judges all agree and so does every jury,
they say he’s the best farm lawyer in the whole state of Missouri…”
Thanks to our Missouri colleague Paul Henry (himself a darn good