The Land Use Institute, a program that for many years has been planned by co-chairs Frank Schnidman and Gideon Kanner, has found a new home with the American Bar Association’s Section of State and Local Government Law as the main sponsor. It also has a new Planning co-chair, Dean Patty Salkin of Touro Law
The hotel reservations link for the 2016 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation and Condemnation 101 Conference is now live.
Reserve your hotel room now, via this link to ensure that you have a spot in the conference hotel. [note: link updated 7/8/2015]
We’re still working on the agenda and faculty, but here are the
We are distracted today so haven’t had the time to write up our initial thoughts about Horne v. Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 14-275 (June 22, 2015), the California raisins takings case which the Supreme Court decided yesterday.
So instead we did this video, a take off on those goofy tech “unboxing” videos.
In case you somehow missed it, takings junkies, today, June 23, 2015, is the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s excreable 5-4 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), and just about anyone who is anyone in our field has weighed in with a retrospective. We don’t have much
… look no further than the above report from The Daily Show.
Yeah, it’s satire and does at times make light of a serious case, but the USDA was trying to defend a regulation that
Update: here’s more Horne talk, in addition to our own initial thoughts in the above video and this post (“Magna Raisins: 8-1 SCOTUS Says There’s A Taking, But Not All Agree On Remedy“):
Here’s the podcast of our recent talk to the American Bar Association’s Section of State and Local Government Law about the (then) upcoming decision in Horne v. Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 14-275. Transcript here, if you’d prefer to read it.
This is a preview of the decision. But since we made some predictions
As we predicted, the Supreme Court today held that personal property — here, raisins — is property protected from uncompensated acquisition, and that the USDA’s New Deal regulations pursuant to which the Department fined the Hornes for not turning over to the government a massive percentage of their yearly crop without compensation, is a
You remember that Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer classic “Gaslight,’ in which Bergman’s character is driven by her manipulative husband to doubt her own grip on reality? It gave rise to the term “gaslighting,” which, according to Wikipedia, is “a form of mental abuse in which information is twisted or spun
“It’s Frank’s world, we just live in it.”
– attributed to Dean Martin, about Frank Sinatra
A narrowly drawn opinion from the Supreme Court in Horne v. Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 14-275, argued in April and to