For those of you who have not recently attended the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference (just wrapped in Charleston, planning Palm Springs 2019), here’s a small sampling of the kind of thing we do.
It’s U. Virginia lawprof Molly Brady talking about the U.S. Supreme Court’s regulatory takings decision in
If the headline of this post throws you off a bit, not to worry: it was designed to. Because the situation in the North Carolina Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Wilkie v. City of Boiling Spring Lakes, No. 44PA17 (Mar. 2, 2018), turned the usual arguments on their heads.
In condemnation cases, if the
The last time the U.S. Supreme Court faced Williamson County in a merits case, the property owners made the mistake of not challenging that case’s “state procedures” requirement directly. An exchange with Justice O’Connor went like this; from the transcript:
Justice O’Connor: And you haven’t asked us to revisit that Williamson County case, have
Here’s an article (“Murr v. Wisconsin: The Supreme Court Rewrites Property Rules in Multiple-Parcel Regulatory Takings Cases“), which we authored along with a colleague, published in February 2018’s Zoning and Planning Law Report, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Murr v. Wisconsin, the case about the “larger parcel” in
In Bayberry Cove Children’s Land Trust v. Town of Steuben, No. Was-17-258 (Feb. 27, 2018), the Maine Supreme Judicial Court considered whether the Town’s exercise of eminent domain to take an interest to a road the public had apparently been using for decades (if not centuries) was for public use.
A 2013 survey, however
Mark your calendars, plan to come: Detroit, April 19-20, 2018. For what is perhaps the best deal in CLE (tuition as low as $400), the 32d Annual Land Use Institute, sponsored by our section of the ABA, the Section of State and Local Government Law.
The venue is the
At the recent ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, we held an after-hours preview of the upcoming feature film about the Kelo case, “Little Pink House.” (Based on Jeff Benedict’s book, which we reviewed here.)
The filmmakers graciously allowed us to preview it at the
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following out of Louisiana, involving a local Port’s power to seize a Mississippi River docking facility downriver from New Orleans. The Port took the entire VDP facility, made no change in how the property was used, and eventually turned over operation of the facility to
Here’s the (draft) article from our poriton of the first panel at the 2017 Brigham-Kanner Conference, “Back to the Future of Land Use Regulation.” (Also posted on SSRN here.)
This is an expanded version of our talk (listen to the audio here) during the Conference during which the William
For you land-users out there, be sure to check your inboxes for the link to the latest issue of The Urban Lawyer, the law review published by my section of the ABA, the Section of State and Local Government Law. With articles on privacy and public real estate records, neighborhood opposition to zoning changes