Municipal & Local Govt law

Here’s another one from the Ninth Circuit, argued on what one advocate called “land use day at the Ninth Circuit” (except, unlike the other two cases argued that day, the decision in this one gets published). 

In Gearing v. City of Half Moon Bay, No. 21-16688 (Dec. 8, 2022), the panel upheld

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This story might be said to have had its roots millions of years ago.

It is about coal, after all. Anthracite coal, to be exact.

But that — and today’s date — should give you a clue that, as we teased in this post a mere 28 days ago (the Supreme Court worked hard

Check out the Ohio Supreme Court’s 6-1 opinion in State ex rel. Ohio History Connection v. Moundbuilders Country Club Co., No. 2020-0191 (Dec. 7, 2022), in which the court held held that the taking of the Country Club’s lease for the property served a public use.

Court News Ohio beat us to the punch

Here’s your must-read for today, the latest journal article from Michael Berger, “Theft, Extortion, and the Constitution: Land Use Practice Needs an Ethical Infusion,” 38 Touro L. Rev. 755 (2022).

Here’s the Abstract:

There are many ways in which property owners/developers interact with regulators. To the extent that texts and articles deal

The Supreme Court of Montana’s opinion in Tai Tam, LLC v. Missoula County, No. DA21-0660 (Nov. 15, 2022) starts off like a somewhat typical land use dispute turned into a constitutional fight. The property owner sought subdivision approvals for a 28-acre parcel to allow residential development, and the County denied the applications because “the

Syllabus

Starting in January, we’ll be teaching the venerated, and oh-so-important Land Use course (Law 580) at the University of Hawaii’s Law School.

We’re at least temporarily stepping into some mighty big slippers (this is Hawaii, so we don’t always wear shoes), as this is the course that our mentor Professor David Callies taught for

Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following.

In this cert petition, business owners on the losing end of a Co-19 shutdown order assert that the Sixth Circuit got it wrong when it concluded that the “overriding public purpose” of the shutdown orders should be given what amounts to dispositive weight under

Here it is, the official agenda and program for the 40th ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, February 2-4, 2023 (with a special event the evening of Wednesday, February 1, 2023 to entice you to arrive early).

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Here’s the brochure with the complete agenda, schedule, and faculty listing. But to tempt you,

Well, that was quick. As we noted here, we recently argued a case in the Ninth Circuit (October 20, 2022) about whether a regulatory takings claim is ripe

Not long after we posted the argument recording, the Ninth Circuit panel issued a short memorandum opinion rejecting our arguments wholesale (November 1, 2022).

So earlier

Just missed

Yes, the granddaddy of all SCOTUS regulatory takings cases, from which we got such phrases as these was argued 100 years ago this day.

  • The general rule, at least, is that, while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far, it will be recognized as a taking.”
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