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
Here’s the amici brief we’re filing in a case which we told you about earlier, involving the way attorneys’ fees get calculated when a statute allows fee shifting.
This is the afterglow of a rails-to-trails takings case, in which the property owners are entitled under the Uniform Relocation Act to attorneys’ fees. We like.
Tomorrow, Thursday, October 6, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. at Aliiolani Hale, the Hawaii Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case we’ve been following (we filed an amicus brief in the case, supporting the property owner on the first Question Presented), County of Kauai v. Hanalei River Holdings, Ltd., No. SCWC-14-0000828.
The
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following, and which earlier resulted in a very good decision from the North Carolina Supreme Court.
In Kirby v. North Carolina Dep’t of Transportation, No 56PA14-2 (June 10, 2016), the N.C. Supreme Court held that the “Map Act,” a statute by which the DOT designated vast
We’ve teased some of the details on the 2017 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation and Condemnation 101 Conference, to be held at the Westin San Diego, January 26-28, 2017, but here are the details you’ve been waiting for.
This is the “big one,” our annual 3-day festival of all things eminent domain
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:
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, “
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
In a case we’ve been following in which the County of Kauai is condemning several Hanalei-area parcels to expand an adjacent public beach park, the Hawaii Supreme Court has accepted certiorari and agreed to review these three questions:
QUESTION NO. 1.: Must two parcels physically abut in order for the jury to consider whether they
