The roof collapsed and damaged the building. In the view of the City, that created an immediate danger so it demolished it. But the building owners had plans to fix it up, and claimed the demolition was a taking. Trial court said no, the Connecticut Appellate Court affirmed:
On the basis of our review
The land use and zoning game can be pretty strange to the uninitiated. If that description includes you, here’s your chance to get initiated. The American Planning Association is sponsoring a webinar about “Rules of the Game: A Framework for Fair and Effective Zoning Hearings,” on Monday, March 7, 2016. Here’s the
Here’s the long story short in Metropolitan Theater, LLC v. YES Prep Public Schools, Inc, No. 01-15-00480 (Feb. 25, 2016), a decision from the Texas Court of Appeals:
The theater sued “YES Prep Public Schools” because (allegedly), the school screwed up the theater’s agreement to buy a parcel of land from a third party.
You can really breathe in San Jose
They’ve got a lot of space
There’ll be a place where I can stay.
I was born and raised in San Jose
I’m going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose
Today, in this order after a series of rescheduled considerations that had seen the
Colorado’s Constitution prohibits the use of proceeds from the state lottery, which are used to fund the “Great Outdoor Colorado Program” Trust Fund from being “used to acquire real property by condemnation through the power of eminent domain.” Colo. Const. art. XXVII, § 9.
The Town of Silverthorne used trust fund money on a recreational trail project
Let’s say that you didn’t know much about regulatory takings, or municipal employment and Fair Labor Standards law (in our case, the latter would most certainly be correct). And let’s say you were asked to predict how the plaintiff would fare with a claim that the city’s regulatory regime for taxicabs was so oppressive that
All of the drama playing out in the North Carolina Supreme Court yesterday as the court heard oral arguments in its review of Kirby v North Carolina Dep’t of Transportation, No. COA14-184 (Feb. 17, 2015) came down — as they often do in these things — to a single question from the bench, and
Here’s what we’re reading today:
Here’s the latest on a takings case that is winding its way through the U.S. District Court in Honolulu. Yes, you read that right: a takings case being litigated in federal court.
Intrigued? Read on.
We’ve covered this case and the related state court litigation several times here before, so this isn’t entirely unfamiliar ground. This
We’ve posted a lot lately reporting on the 2016 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, recently held in Austin. We have a couple of more posts for you before we turn to other things. Here is the first, a run-down of the blogs of faculty members, and others we were in the