Today, on behalf of Owners’ Counsel of America, we filed this amicus brief in River Center LLC v. Dormitory Auth. of the State of New York, No. 11-922.
Did you know that when the U.S. Supreme Court began applying the rights in the Bill of Rights to the states (aka “selective incorporation”) that
Today’s post is authored by colleague Thor Hearne, who regularly represents property owners in the Court of Federal Claims, the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court. He recently joined us on the faculty of the ALI-ABA eminent domain program in San Diego, and spoke at the 2011 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in Beijing.
Most of the cert petitions about eminent domain in recent years have focused on the “public use” side of the equation, and not on the “just compensation” side. That’s not surprising, since the Kelo issue (the power to take) has been the object of intense public interest, so much so that as eminent domain lawyers
