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
“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
Thanks to the folks at the Environmental Law Institute, who have allowed us to reprint an article from a recent Environmental Law Reporter by William W. Wade, Ph.D., a resource economist with the firm Energy and Water Economics (Columbia, Tennessee). Bill is a frequent author and speaker on the Penn Central issue, and he’s
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
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following. In Bridge Aina Lea, LLC v. State of Hawaii Land Use Comm’n, the plaintiff filed its complaint in state circuit court alleging that the LUC violated state and federal law (due process, takings, vested rights, and more) when it reclassified “urban” land on the Big
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the petition for a writ of certiorari in Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, No. 10-1125. Property owners asked the Court to review the Ninth Circuit’s sharply divided en banc opinion, which held that the City’s mobile home rent control ordinance did not work a regulatory taking because the
The petitioners have filed their reply brief in Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, No. 10-1125 (petition for cert. filed Mar. 11, 2011), the case involving California mobile home park owners who are asking the Court to review the decision of a sharply divided en banc Ninth Circuit which held that Goleta’s mobile home rent
Comes the sad news that Jess S. Jackson, of the renown Kendall-Jackson wine label, has passed away in his Northern California home. Details here (K-J website), here (San Francisco Chronicle), and here (Santa Rosa Press Democrat). Jackson’s biography reveals a life lived very large: winemaker, business mogul, philanthropist, race horse owner.
Add to that list
The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and the Reason Foundation have joined the list of parties (us included) who submitted briefs supporting the cert petition in Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, No. 10-1125 (petition for cert. filed Mar. 11, 2011). Their brief is available here.
In that case, California mobile home park
Here’s another of the amicus briefs in Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, No. 10-1125. The brief of the National Association of Home Builders argues:
The Ninth Circuit in Guggenheim has rejected the widely held principle that regulatory takings claims run with the land for all subsequent title holders. As a result, the availability of