Here’s one we’ve been meaning to post for a while, if only because it presents a fascinating issue about the nature of Torrens title (so much so that we filed an amicus brief on behalf of Pacific Legal Foundation in the Intermediate Court of Appeals).
The State of Hawaii has filed an Application for a
A big thanks to my Owners Counsel of America and ABA State and Local Government Law Section colleague Dwight Merriam for emceeing today’s well-attended double session on land use and takings law at the International Municipal Lawyers Association’s 2013 annual meeting in San Francisco. Dwight and I were joined by land use expert Cecily
A link to a story worth reading about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, No. 11-1147 (June 25, 2013).
In Developing Story at Florida Trend (“The Magazine of Florida Business”), our Owners’ Counsel of America colleague Amy Brigham Boulris is quoted along with the property owner/petitioner
Dwight Merriam, familiar to our readers for the items of interest he frequently forwards, as a co-author of a recent brief in the New York rent control case, chapter author in the seminal eminent domain treatise Nichols on Eminent Domain, for being the editor of the ABA’s annual “Cutting Edge”
University of Hawaii lawprofs Carl Christensen and Williamson Chang have kindly asked me to visit their Legal History of Hawaii class (Law 520D) on Thursday, September 19, 2013, and guest lecture on the topic of “Land Reform and the ‘Public Use’ Factor in Eminent Domain: Midkiff, Kelo, County of Hawaii v. C & J
Here’s what we’re reading today:
Here’s the cert petition filed earlier this week, asking the Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit’s decision in MHC Financing Ltd. P’ship v. City of San Rafael,714 P.3d 1118 (9th Cir. 2013).
That’s the case in which the Ninth Circuit overturned the District Court’s ruling (after two trials) that MHC had proven a
If you are anywhere within striking distance of Touro Law School (Central Islip, Long Island), you should make plans to attend a conference that promises two days of fantastic programming on October 3 and 4, 2013.
“The Taking Issue – 40th Anniversary Symposium” is dedicated to the memory of the legendary Professor Fred
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in Temple B’Nai Zion, Inc v. City of Sunny Isles, No. 12-12094 (Aug. 29, 2013), held that the Williamson County ripeness doctrine did not prevent the Temple from bringing its RLUIPA (and related) claims in federal court.
The right result for sure. But wait, you
Just over a month ago, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a federal takings case could actually proceed in federal court. Well yesterday, the same court issued a similar opinion in a related case, Town of Nags Head v. Toloczko, No. 12-1537 (Aug. 27, 2013).
We won’t go