Nollan/Dolan | Exactions

SCOTUSblog has designated West Linn Corporate Park LLC v City of West Linn, No. 11-299 (petition for cert. filed Sep. 6, 2011), as a petition to watch for today’s conference.

That’s the case which asks whether the nexus and “rough proportionality” tests for a regulatory taking in Nollan and Dolan are limited to government

Hold the presses! In an unusual move spurred by a recent decision by the Florida Supreme Court, the petitioner has filed a supplemental brief in West Linn Corporate Park LLC v City of West Linn, No. 11-299 (petition for cert. filed Sep. 6, 2011), the case which asks whether the nexus and “rough

We’ve been thinking a lot about exactions lately.

First, it was the petition for certiorari in West Linn Corporate Park LLC v City of West Linn, No. 11-299 (petition for cert. filed Sep. 6, 2011), which asks whether the nexus and “rough proportionality” tests for a regulatory taking in Nollan and Dolan are limited

This just in: on November 10, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether it has found the vehicle to resolve an issue the lower courts have vehemently disagreed upon, whether the Nollan/Dolan nexus/rough proportionality analysis is limited to exactions of real property. See West Linn Corporate Park, LLC v. City of West

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“Yosemite,” according to California Place Names, Erwin Gudde’s seminal work on the origins of (surprise) California place names, means “they are killers.” It was “[e]vidently a name given to the Indians of the valley by those outside it.”

I raise this historical tidbit because I must admit to feeling a little like “those outside

Here’s the latest in the lengthy West Linn Corporate Park tale from Oregon. After having bounced from federal court, to the Oregon state courts, then back to federal court, the case is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The issue in the case is whether the Ninth Circuit was correct when it

Yosemite_conference Here are the links to the cases and other items discussed today at the session Regulatory Takings – Looking Back and Looking Forward at the Cal State Bar’s Environmental Law Section’s Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite.

These cases are also in your written materials.

Yosemite_conference One conference down, one to go.

We’re on the way back from the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in Beijing, and on our way to the California State Bar Environmental Law Section’s annual conference at Yosemite N.P., which begins later this week. More information about the conference here.

Along with U.C. Berkeley law professor Joseph

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“There is strong consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is occurring and that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities contribute to climate change.”

So begins Climate Change and Regulatory Takings in Coastal Hawaii, a monograph by Douglas Codiga, Dennis Hwang, and Chris Delaunay, published by the University of Hawaii Sea Grant

You have to like any sport that the New York Times describes as “like driving full speed through an endless loop of red lights. Luck often expires in a cloudburst of steam and scattered auto parts.” That’s how the Times described “figure 8 car racing.”

But not everyone likes figure 8 racing or