The work on what turned out to be the first phase on Honolulu’s billions-of-dollars rail project from Kapolei to the Ala Moana Shopping Center isn’t even close to being done yet, but the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation looks like it is thinking ahead to Phase 2, and extending the line from the shopping center
Here’s the cert petition in a case we’ve been following from the Third Circuit, Knick v. Township of Scott.
Read more about the case’s background here. The short story is that the court concluded the Township’s ordinance which requires owners of all cemeteries, public or private, to maintain them was “constitutionally suspect,” but also held
The Georgia Supreme Court’s analysis in Diversified Holdings, LLP v. City of Suwanee, No. S17A1140 (Nov. 2, 2017) reminded us of that old trope from logic, “no true Scotsman.”
According to a completely reliable source (Wikipedia):
No true Scotsman is a kind of informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect a
Check this out: according to this article (“This SC man won a Supreme Court case. He wants to know why he can’t talk about it“), David Lucas, the lawyer-property owner behind the big reg takings case Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (1993), was apparently not invited to speak
Update: our colleague Bryan Wenter has his take on one of the cases denied review here (“U.S. Supreme Court Again Declines to Consider Important Property Rights Issue Regarding the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine“) (“Because the current composition of the U.S. Supreme Court leans ideologically conservative by any traditional measure and
Update: 10/28/2019: “Lights Out in the Land of No: The Practical Effects of California’s Wildfire Inverse Condemnation Doctrine,” a post about the (ongoing) wildfires and latest developments in inverse condemnation doctrine.
Update 3/12/2018: “California Wildfires, Inverse Condemnation, and Climate Change,” a post about the various responses to the wildfire inverse condemnation
We were all set to dive into the California Court of Appeal’s opinion (rendered in September, but only published yesterday) in Dryden Oaks, LLC v. San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, No. D069161 (Oct. 19, 2017), when our colleague Bryan Wenter beat us to the punch.
So we won’t go into detail, and recommend
The complete agenda and faculty list has now been posted on the ALI-CLE website, and early registration is open! Go now and reserve your spot.
We paid a visit to Charleston recently, the venue for our January 2018 conference, to scout it out. We can report that we’re going to have a great time
Check your mailboxes, the latest edition of the University of Hawaii Law Review is there or is coming. Got ours yesterday. This is the issue with the articles from the symposium (including ours on the ridesharing takings cases) on legal issues in the “sharing economy.”
University of Hawaii Law School Professor David Callies last night was presented with William and Mary Law School’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize which is “presented annually to a scholar, practitioner or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental importance of property rights.”
As W&M notes about Professor Callies, a “prolific scholar whose work explores land use