Here’s the final program and faculty list for the 2015 Hawaii Land Use Conference, coming up Thursday and Friday, January 15-16, 2015, in downtown Honolulu.
This is the bi-annual gathering of Hawaii’s land use mavens, and this year’s program has two very special presenters. Storied lawprof Richard Epstein (perhaps more than a “mere mortal”
Ralph v. State of Washington Dep’t of Natural Resources, No. 88115-4 (Dec. 31, 2014), is a Washington-specific case because it involves the Washington Supreme Court’s view of a state statute governing where lawsuits “for any injuries to real property” “shall be commenced.” But since one of the claims brought by the plaintiff for flooding he
Here’s the latest for you RLUIPA mavens, a complaint recently filed in Hawaii federal court by a Maui “integral yoga” temple and its leader against the County for not permitting it to use their site on Maui’s north shore for things like weddings and religious observations. Parking was the proffered reason, it appears.
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Continuing with our year-end opinion dump, here’s the conclusion of the Texas Court of Appeals in City of Blue Mound v. Southwest Water Co., No. 02-13-00343-CV (Nov. 13, 2014):
Because as a matter of law the City is attempting to condemn Appellees’ water and wastewater system as a going concern, because as
If you, like us, went to law school to avoid things like this:
then perhaps this recently-published paper is not going to be your cup of tea.
But seriously, folks, this one might be worth your time, even if you are numbers-challenged, because it is a look at the “holdout” issue from the standpoint of
The Texas Supreme Court is generally pretty good about property rights. See this opinion, this one, and this one, for examples.
So when the legal analysis in one of its regulatory takings/inverse condemnation opinions has the following language — especially in a case where a municipal government has treated the plaintiffs/property owners very
Back in February, we blogged about an opinion from the Maine Supreme Court involving littoral property (that’s beachfront property to all you non-lawyers and Navy people), in which the court concluded that those who were asserting a prescriptive easement over the plaintiffs’ beachfront property– the Town and several neighbors — had not rebutted Maine’s
Here’s the Verified Complaint in a case recently filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey:
Plaintiffs Jenkinson’s Pavilion, a corporation of the State of New Jersey and Jenkinson’s South, Inc., a corporation of the State of New Jersey, (collectively “Plaintiffs”), bring this action, inter alia, (a) for a declaration as a matter of
Remember that case we posted about here, when it was set for oral arguments in the Hawaii Supreme Court a few months ago, where the plaintiff was asserting that the County of Hawaii Planning Department was liable for negligence for not maintaining its subdivision files accurately?
Last month, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued a
We bring you the latest guest post by colleague Paul Schwind, who has been tracking the issues and arguments that recently led the Hawaii Supreme Court to conclude, in DW Aina Lea Development, LLC v. Bridge Aina Lea, LLC, No. SCAP-13-0000091 (Nov. 25, 2014), that the Hawaii Land Use Commission wrongfully rescinded an