Penn Central

20160114_125445

Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following for what seems like forever. This is also a fact situation that has resulted in litigation in a variety of different fora, and at times has seemed like the final exam question in a Federal Courts law school class. We wrote about this latest

Parslow article

I must say that am pretty chuffed that one of my (now former) William and Mary Law students published a law review article, and he wrote about…takings. And Blackstone, and history.

Read it: Andrew Parslow, A Defense of the Regulatory Takings Doctrine: A Historical Analysis of This Conflict Between Property Rights and Public Good and

We joined friend and colleague Clint Schumacher for the milestone 50th episode of his essential Eminent Domain Podcast

If you are not already a subscriber and regular listener, you should be. Clint features interesting guests (present company excepted) and listening in is a good way to keep our community together, especially when many of

As we noted here, property owners sued the New York governor asserting that one of his emergency measures to respond to the coronavirus crisis (a suspension of eviction proceedings) is a taking.

Yesterday, the District Court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment, and entered summary judgment in favor of the governor. Order Denying

Lech

The Supreme Court today declined to review a Tenth Circuit decision that held a municipality could not be liable for a taking when its police officers pretty much destroyed a house in the course of dislodging a suspect who had holed up there. 

Along with our colleague Bill DeVinney, we filed an amicus brief in

We’ve posted a lot of complaints lately (the lawsuit kind, not the “can I see the manager” kind), mostly coronavirus-related. All involving in one way or another a takings claim. See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and

Congratulations – if you understood this post’s headline, you are officially a rails-to-trails nerd. A super-nerd.

But even if not, you shouldn’t need a rails-to-trails nerd’s level of knowledge to understand and appreciate the Federal Circuit’s ruling in Caquelin v. United States, No. 19-1385 (May 29, 2020). It’s a case worth reading

Another complaint asserting that a business that had to shut down is entitled to compensation for a taking (among other claims). The business in this case is a law firm, and the complaint is a class action. This joins a long (and growing) list of similar complaints. See here, here, here,