Although it is set to launch this Friday, October 2, 2020, there’s still more than enough time to register (and room at the inn) for you to join us for the 17th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School.
Like everything else this season, the Conference is online (
Well, that didn’t take long: as we surmised back when the CDC first issued its order halting residential evictions until the end of the year due to COVID (see “How Can? U.S. DHS: National Eviction Moratorium (Roscoe Filburn Could Not Be Reached For Comment),” the order has resulted in a complaint in
News just in: we’ve just received confirmation that the Conference will not be in-person in Scottsdale in January 2021, and we’re going online.
Not a big surprise, but still a bit disappointing, and it’s a shame that the circumstances won’t allow us to meet in-person to talk shop and to renew our friendships like we
A short while ago, we featured the cert petition in a case from the Big Island that we’ve been following as various pieces of it went up and down through both the state and federal court systems. See “New (Mike Berger) Cert Petition: ‘This case is the proverbial ‘Exhibit A’ of much that is
We’re done with our first day of class for the upper-level students at William and Mary. We’re teaching two courses this semester, the usual Eminent Domain and Property Rights, but also Land Use Law. We were set to begin a semester of “hybrid” instruction (some students in the classroom, with distancing in place, while others
Registration is up and online. Join us (online) for the 2020 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. Tuition: free, unless you want CLE credit (in which case it is a very modest $100). Because this conference has gone virtual, the usual Wren Building awards banquet to honor this year’s B-K Prize winner, lawprof Henry Smith
California law has decriminalized weed. Local governments, however, may regulate the use, sale, possession, and other things (like it can regulate other perfectly legal things). You know, police power kind of regulation.
Under that latter authority, the County of Santa Cruz adopted an ordinance that prohibits a medical weed facility from growing more than 99
Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals’ opinion in Oneida Nation v. Village of Hobart, No. 19-1981 (July 30, 2020). The question was whether a local municipality has the power to regulate activity within the Village’s jurisdiction when that municipality is also wholly within the Oneida Nation.
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Nothing much to see in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals’ opinion in Comstock v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Gloucester, No. 19-P-1163 (Aug. 3, 2020), a somewhat typical zoning dispute.
Neighbor vs neighbor, over whether permits issued by a municipality (and approved by the ZBA) to renovate and replace an existing — but dilapidated
There’s a lot going on in the Michigan Supreme Court’s opinion in Mays v. Governor, No. 157335 (July 29, 2020). After all, the case involves claims for personal and property damages resulting from the Flint (Michigan) water crisis. That’s an issue we’ve been following that has also grabbed national headlines.
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