In this post — the third in a series of deeper dives that we’ll be posting about last week’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107 (June 23, 2021) — we’ll be discussing whether the “right to exclude” is absolute, what exceptions the Court laid out, and how it
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Another SCOTUS Property Rights Win, This Time On Williamson County’s “Final Decision” Requirement
Another day, another property rights decision from SCOTUS. This time, the unanimous per curiam opinion in a case we’ve been following, Pakdel v. City & County of San Francisco, No. 20-1212 (June 28, 2021).
[Disclosure: our PLF colleague Jeff McCoy is lead counsel on this case, and we pitched in with help on…
Ordinance Requiring Developer Pay For “All Necessary Road Capacity Improvements” Violates Nollan/Dolan
We’ve been meaning to post up the California Court of Appeal’s (now published) opinion in Alliance for Responsible Planning v. Taylor, No. C085712 (May 4, 2021) for a bit, and while we were distracted by lawyer work last week, our friend and colleague Bryan Wenter beat us to it with “County’s Initiative-Enacted General …
Mark Your Calendars: 2021 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, Sept 30-Oct 1 (in-person)
Mark your calendars for September 30 – October 1, 2021, and join us at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia for the 18th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. It’s planned to be in-person, so when we mean “join us” we really mean join us.
This year the Conference will recognize the lifetime…
Read And Listen To The Oral Arguments In SCOTUS’ Latest Takings Case
You listened live. Or you missed that, and listened to the recording. Or, you preferred to review what others thought of the arguments. Now you can read it yourself.
Here’s the transcript of Monday’s oral arguments in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107, the case in which the Supreme Court …
Cedar Point Oral Arguments Round-Up
Here are links to the summaries and analysis of yesterday’s oral arguments in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107, the case asking whether California’s forbidding of agricultural property owners from keeping out union organizers is a taking:
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- Justices try to draw lines in California property-rights dispute (Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog) (“During 70 minutes
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In California, Can A Landowner Really Say “Keep Out?” Things To Look For In Today’s SCOTUS Cedar Point Nursery Arguments
Here’s the recorded arguments.
- California will try and push the Court to seeing this as an “anti-union” lawsuit: this is not that big of an intrusion, we’ve been doing it for 50 years under both Cal and federal law, and a ruling for the property owners will upset this apple cart and prevent unions
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New Cert Petition: “Final Decision” Takings Ripeness, Exhaustion; Unconstitutional Conditions & Legislative Exactions
How about buying what you thought was a retirement home, only to be told that if you want the local government’s ok change the form of ownership of the property you’ve got to offer any tenant a lifetime lease? Here’s the cert petition, filed today in a case we’ve been following for a while, …
New Cert Petition: Is Invalidation Of A Patent Via Inter Partes Review A Taking? “Is a patent a property right or is it something less?”
Back to blogging…
Here’s the latest cert petition on an issue we’ve been following for a while (see here, here, here and here, for example). Is invalidation of an already-issued patent via inter partes review a taking?
In this case, the Federal Circuit held no taking, consistent with its earlier opinion…
Still Time To Join Us: ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference (Online!) This Thursday & Friday. Tuition Deals! #EminentDomain2021
Yes, it starts tomorrow, Thursday, January 28, 2021, but we’re “remote” this year, so it is not too late to register to join us for the 38th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference. This is the “big one” where the nation’s best practitioners, scholars, jurists, and other industry professionals gather to talk …



