Yesterday, the other shoe dropped. In this order the U.S. Supreme Court denied review to a case that we’ve long been following, which challenged aspects of New York’s draconian rent control laws as a taking, 74 Pinehurst v. New York.
We say the “other shoe” because ever since the Court denied review months
Join us at 12:30pm ET today, Tuesday, February 13, 2024, for the ABA’s Section of Real Property, Trust and Estates’ monthly Professor’s Corner, where we will join exactions experts Prof Tim Mulvaney, Andrew Gowder, and Prof Elizabeth Elia to discuss the Supreme Court arguments, the issues in the case, and what may be down
If you dream such dreams as this photo, read on.
My law firm, Pacific Legal Foundation, is on the hunt for lawyer to join our Property Rights group (yours truly is the Director of Property Rights Litigation, so you will be working with me and the other takings and con law mavens in our practice).
Don’t miss out!
We promise: this is the last time we’re going to try to entice you to the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference in New Orleans. We are getting close to capacity, but there is still room. In recent years, we have standing room only in the Conference halls, and
This season of the Institute for Justice‘s podcast series “Bound by Oath” is devoted to property rights. It’s a fascinating series — produced by John Ross, it is more like an audio documentary than a typical podcast — focusing on constitutional issues. And we say this not just because we’ve been a
Here is a collection of commentary on the oral arguments in Sheetz v. El Dorado County, heard by the Supreme Court earlier this week. (Our own thoughts here.)
If you were looking for deep clarity from the Justices about land use law and whether a legislature imposing monetary conditions on property development always gets the free judicial pass of rational basis review in this morning’s oral arguments in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, you may not discover a lot of predictive
Bismarck in January is looking pretty good.
Here’s what we’re reading today:
Get ready for Sheetz v. El Dorado County, No. 22-1074, the “legislative exactions” case at the Supreme Court. [Disclosure: this is one of our firm’s cases, so we won’t be doing an analysis here. Besides, you already know where we stand on the issue.]
As you may remember, from time to time we’ve visited the sites of well-known dirt law cases. Kaiser Aetna, Loretto, Mahon, PruneYard, Chicago Burlington, the High Line, Dolan, Nollan, Seneca Village, and Hadacheck are the ones that readily come to mind.
Yes, we have a lot