Our final day was anchored, as usual, by Pacific Legal Foundation’s Jim Burling, and property rights guru and advocate Michael Berger. Jim was his usual riveting self, and Michael supplied the insight to cases which only he can.
In case you are wondering, the above is the view from the dais, and no, I didn’t
Yeah, at the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference now ongoing in San Diego, we talk severance damages, relocation benefits, highest and best use, pipelines, energy corridors, temporary construction easements, and blah, blah, blah.
But what really matters is when our St. Louis colleague Paul Henry (the bravest man we know) presents “
Here are the links and references to the cases we spoke about today at our opening session on the national trends in eminent domain law at the 2017 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in San Diego.
We again have a record attendance, and a good number of new attendees. If you aren’t
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:
A question for those of you who do a lot of straight condemnation work: do you drive roads and highways with a slightly different outlook than the rest of the motoring public, especially on those roads where you represented a property owner defending against eminent domain? While others see signs and intersections and the like
Complete information, including registration, faculty, and agenda, here.
We love Leo Rosten’s classic definition of chutzpah: “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.” Mr. Rosten’s dictum stretches around the world — apparently even into its remote corners such as the Northern Marianas Islands.
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Here’s South Dakota v. JB Enterprises, Inc., No. 27176 (Dec. 7, 2016), the second in a series of three recent cases decided by the South Dakota Supreme Court involving a highway renovation project by the SD Department of Transportation. (Here’s the first.)
This one involved the DOT’s “quick take” power, and
Here’s the final brochure for the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Conference, set for January 26-28, 2017, in San Diego.
Early registration gets you a discount (code CY009MK), as does multiple registrations from one office, so now’s the time to commit to joining us for our annual gathering (the 34th Annual) of
Several years ago, William & Mary Law School’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference departed its usual Williamsburg, Virginia venue and held the event in Beijing. Holding the conference there allowed U.S. legal scholars and property law practitioners to share ideas and compare our ways with our PRC counterparts. The event was a great success.
Now
