Here are all of the amici briefs in support of the property owners/petitioners in Kurtz v. Verizon New York, Inc., No. 14-439 (cert. petition filed Oct. 14, 2014).
That’s the case in which the Second Circuit threw out a complaint on Williamson County ripeness grounds. Odd thing was that the court held that a
Here’s the Brief in Opposition filed by the city Kentner v. City of Sanibel, No. 14-404, the case asking the Supreme Court to review an 11th Circuit decision in which the court concluded that riparian rights, although recognized by Florida as property rights, are not “fundamental rights” protected by the Due Process Clause. The
The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued a lengthy opinion in a case we’ve been following, DW Aina Lea Development, LLC v. Bridge Aina Lea, LLC, No. SCAP-13-0000091 (Nov. 25, 2014).
The litigation is a series of two lawsuits that originated in state court in the Third Circuit (Big Island), one an original jurisdiction civil rights
Check out this story from today’s Greensboro/Winston-Salem (NC) News-Record, “DOT’s long road to nowhere angers property owners” about the practice in North Carolina of using “protected corridors” to designate property under the state’s Transportation Corridor Official Map Act for future highway use, but then not condemning and paying for the land (while
The use of eminent domain for energy transmission corridors has become a hot topic lately. See, for example, the following posts:
There’s still time to register for tomorrow’s American Planning Association (Planning and Law Division)’s webinar, Fair Housing, Affordable Housing, and Local Planning and Zoning: Understanding the Obligations and Reducing Your Community’s Legal Risk. Here’s the description:
The Planning and Law Division of the American Planning Association is pleased to host the upcoming webcast Fair
For those of you who couldn’t join us at the William & Mary Law School last month for the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (see our report here), the law school has made videos of the four panel presentations available here.
They’re high quality videos, so be prepared for big downloads, but the
The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued a unanimous opinion in Friends of Makakilo v. D.R. Horton-Schuler Homes, LLC, No. SCAP-13-0002408 (Oct. 30, 2014), holding that there’s not really such thing as a “cross appeal” in administratve appeals (at least in the sense that “cross appeal” is usually used in appellate procedure).
Quick facts:
Here’s what caught our eye today:
A big thank you to our friend and colleague from Detroit, Dan Dalton, who sent us a recently-published book which he authored, “Litigating Religious Land Use Cases.”
This book discusses how to litigate such a religious land use case on behalf of a religious entity pursuant to the Religious Land Use and