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We really want you there…

One (nearly) last reminder that there’s still time to register for your space at the 40th ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, February 1-4, 2023, in Austin. In the past several years, we have sold out due to the conference room capacity and the conference hotel block.

Here it is, the official agenda and program for the 40th ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, February 2-4, 2023 (with a special event the evening of Wednesday, February 1, 2023 to entice you to arrive early).

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Here’s the brochure with the complete agenda, schedule, and faculty listing. But to tempt you,

Remember that First Circuit opinion from a few months back, which held – contrary to a prior 2-1 Ninth Circuit panel – that just compensation claims are not dischargeable in a governmental bankruptcy?

Well, the government recently filed a cert petition asking the Supreme Court to take the case and hold that there’s nothing

That’s right: Clint Schumacher’s Eminent Domain Podcast has reached its 100th episode. Very impressive, Clint!

And for this “very special episode,” Clint was kind enough to ask us to return to celebrate. In a wide-ranging hour-plus chat, Clint and I talked property rights and takings of course, but also hit on several

Be sure to check out Anthony Alderman (MRICS, SR/WA, CRE, Senior Managing Director at Cushman & Wakefield), who guests on Episode 98 of Clint Schumacher’s Eminent Domain Podcast, “Eminent Domain in Pop Culture.”

You know we are going to really appreciate an episode “about depictions of eminent domain in popular culture – often

BK 2022

There’s still space for you to join us — preferably in-person, but remotely if that is not possible for you — at the 19th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, September 29-30, 2022, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg.

The American Law Institute was kind enough to post a notice about the Conference

Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following. The U.S. Court of Appeals recently heard oral arguments in a case where a private Natural Gas Act condemnor (the Sabal Trail pipeline) exercised the delegated federal power of eminent domain to take the property of a Florida owner.

As we reported here

Is there a more appropriate place at which to study property rights and dirt law than William and Mary Law School? After all, it is a stone’s throw from Jamestown, the place where there’s a good argument the concept of property law and property rights first took hold in the New World. As

IRWA

The International Right of Way Association‘s Real Estate Law Committee produces twice-a-year reports “which contain summaries of eminent domain decisions and legislation within the United States.”

And what is really nice is that they make the report available

We’re posting it here because we’re one of the co-authors. Hat tip to our co-authors

Last week, along with my colleagues Deborah La Fetra and Kady Valois, we filed this cert petition in a case we’ve been following (even before we joined as counsel).

The petition seeks review of the Fifth Circuit’s opinion holding that there’s nothing a federal court can do if a local government does not pay