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You’ve known for a while that Palm Springs, California, specifically the Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel (a resort facility, but right in town, so you will have many options for “off campus” activities like art museums, the aerial tram, golf, and whatever suits your fancy, and close-in to the Palm Springs Airport), is the venue

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Here are the cases and other items I either spoke about or mentioned at today’s Transportation Research Board‘s 57th Annual Workshop on Transportation Law in Cambridge, Massachusetts:

Here’s a cert petition we’ve been waiting to drop, in a case we’ve been following out of Florida.

In Town of Ponce Inlet v. Pacetta, LLC, No. 5D14-4520 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. June 16, 2017), the Florida District Court of Appeal reversed a Lucas takings verdict, concluding the case might not even be ripe

Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following. In Alimanestianu v. United States, No. 17-1667 (May 7, 2018), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Court of Federal Claims’ ruling rejecting takings liability for the government wiping out a money judgment in favor of terrorism victims against the Libyan

You have about a week to reserve your tickets for the exclusive Honolulu screening of Little Pink House,” the feature film about the Kelo v. City of New London case,  scheduled for June 11, 2018:

Two key dates:

  • June 4, 2018: This is the deadline to buy your ticket. The way this works

In Hunter Landing, LLC v. City of Council Bluffs, No. 16-2138 (May 16, 2018), the Iowa Court of Appeals held that the jury was entitled to be instructed about all takings theories, and not just limited to a Lucas and physical invasion instruction. 

After several of Hunter’s nonconforming buildings were damaged in a flood

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Another week, another Federal Circuit panel opinion on takings authored by Judge Timothy Dyk (following the recent MR-GO opinion). And you know what that means: property owners lose.

The Court of Federal Claims concluded that the feds had taken the plaintiff’s lease of of a part of Dallas’ Love Field — under both a

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Some of the Land Use Institute faculty, including (front row left), Planning Chair Frank Schnidman and Planning Co-Chair Patty Salkin

Last Friday at the 32nd Annual Land Use Institute in Detroit, I was honored to moderate a freewheeling discussion by a panel of takings experts, Professor Steven Eagle, Minnesota lawyer Howard Roston, and Michigan’s

Do we really need to tell you how a rent control regulatory takings claim fared in the Ninth Circuit? We didn’t think so.

In Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, No. 16-562655 (Apr. 23, 2018), a three-judge panel reversed a district court jury verdict which concluded that the City was liable for

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We’re in Detroit the rest of the week at the Mercy Law School for the venerable Land Use Institute, now in its 32nd iteration.

Planning Chair Frank Schnidman has assembled a great faculty including out Detroit colleague Alan Ackerman (above, talking about takings liability for flooding), and we’ll be spending the time talking inverse