Municipal & Local Govt law

Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following since before it became one of ours.

In Gearing v. City of Half Moon Bay, No. 21-16688 (Dec. 8, 2022), the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s dismissal of a regulatory takings case, holding that federal courts should abstain from considering regulatory takings cases in

Here are what others are saying about Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Tyler v. Hennepin County, No. 22-166 (U.S. May 25, 2023), the case in which the Court unanimously held that the county’s keeping the excess equity in Ms. Tyler’s home over what she owed in property taxes and fees is an uncompensated taking

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We’ll be rendering unto Caesar, but first we must
decide: classic or creamy?

That was quick: it seems like it was only yesterday — or maybe more accurately, less than a month ago — that we were listening in live to the Supreme Court as it heard arguments in Tyler v. Hennepin County, No.

Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following since its inception, this cert petition seeking Supreme Court review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s affirming the district court’s dismissal of a complaint alleging that New York (state)’s sweeping amendments to its Rent Stabilization (rent control) statute effected categorical and

When we last visited Sheetz v. El Dorado County, we finished with “stay tuned” because we suspected that the California Court of Appeal’s opinion concluding that the County’s traffic mitigation fee is immune from Nollan/Dolan nexus-and-rough-proportionality review because the legislature imposed the fee on everyone (and Sheetz was not subject to paying it because

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A good opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Knight v. Metro. Gov’t of Nashville, No. 21-6179 (May 10, 2023), holding that conditions imposed on every development — and not just ad hoc administratively-imposed conditions — must conform to the Nollan-Dolan-Koontz close nexus and rough proportionality standards.

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Here’s a new cert petition, filed this week by Michael Berger that asks whether Knick‘s no-need-to-exhaust-or-chase-state-compensation rule applies retroactively.

The Second Circuit held that no, the owner’s claims were too late, and although Knick overruled the Williamson County rule that kept him from a timely filing in federal court, that’s just too

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Shands Key, with the City of Marathon in the background

This just in: in Shands v. City of Marathon, No. 3D21-1987 (May 3, 2023), Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals held that the city’s downzoning the property (Shands Key, shown above in an exhibit from the Key West trial we participated in in June

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Here’s the cert petition in a case we’ve been following

This is the one where a North Carolina county went bonkers in the early days of Co-19, and truly “locked down” by banning nonresident property owners from entering the county. This wasn’t done all at once, but in phases, with nonresident property owners being

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Our Pacific Legal Foundation Property Rights Litigation Tyler team,
and Counsel of Record Christina Martin (second from right)

Here are your links to the buzz about Tyler v. Hennepin County, No. 22-166, our law firm’s case which argues that Hennepin County’s seizure of Ms. Tyler’s condo and then keeping the excess equity over what